Business leaders, community groups and politicians across the politician spectrum are calling for Australia to build up its domestic manufacturing capability during the Coronavirus pandemic. With unprecedented closures of international borders and restrictions in overseas markets, Australia�s over-reliance upon global imports revealed a gap in our supply chains. In the modern globalised world, it is difficult to disentangle the issue of trade with onshore manufacturing, says Arpita Chatterjee, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at UNSW Business School.