Trade to China
Despite the shifting of export marketing in China, the general wealth of local middle class Chinese consumers will continue to grow. A new understanding of pollution and toxicity, educated and affluent Chinese have lowered their trust in locally produced products, particularly food and beverage, so the import of clean foods will be on the rise.
Asia and Indonesia are also looking for new avenues for food products not wishing to source from China.
With the current Australian and Pacific currency now being so atrociously high, this is an opportunity to take back many manufacturing and production pursuits and market good quality items to this new consumer resource.
Asian Tourists
There are big opportunities to bring Asian Tourists to Australia - in my time in Kuala Lumpur I was most impressed by the daily bus loads of Chinese Tourists (up to 50 buses a day) that would pull up and fill the 500 room hotel I was staying in.
They do not just like visiting cities, but are also very interested in nature, animals, bush and forest and low set buildings because there is very little of this left in China.
Australian tour operators have learned that they must create the opportunity quickly or the Chinese will create their own (like the Japanese did) ... e.g. there has been a new Billion Dollar resort proposed for Cairns for some years, but unless someone can develop an environmentally sound concept, this will likely never eventuate.
The strong green heritage of Cairns is something to be admired, not ridiculed, but it could be done in a eco fashion..