Bought a 2011 VE Thunder SS new. Great car - love it.
Bought a 2011 VE Thunder SS new. Great car - love it.
Agree, all for it. I always buy Australian made (and owned if possible) where there is a suitable alternative. Every major applicance in the house is Australian made (fridges, washing machine, dryer, oven, cooktop, dishwasher - all Westinghouse made here). The only one not Australian was a Smeg microwave - guess what? Only thing that has ever failed was the microwave! There is no suitable alternative in cars for me unfortunately!
Deregulation of the industry in the late 70's early 80's sounded the death nell for the car industry, the same as every other industry that went that way. My uncle was a dairy farmer until deregulation, lasted about 3 years. True all the car manufacturers were from overseas, and now we are selling our mines and our farm land off to overseas conglomerates, i feel sorry for the next generations of Australians. How is anyone going to make a living?
Email in Orange is closing down. There will be no more Australian made Westinghouse white goods either.
Australian farms have been bought and sold by overseas investors for ever. They all end up selling once they realise our climate is so unpredictable. All very well owning the land but actually producing something and making a profit in business terms are never possible for a farm investor.
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Electrolux is still in South Australia afaik, but the NSW units closed or are closing as you say.
i have a 2012 commodore and a 2012 colarado and 2 mit lancers 2003 models.the colarado is made in thailand .
No perfect storm. Those companies all left for cheaper wages. Unless we work for $4 an hour they won't come back.
Time and the ABC ......
Germany subsides BMW to the hilt. They would not build cars either if it wasn't the case. Germany was 50% a communist country until 1989.
They all pulled out after Ford playing follow the leader. They still want to sell cars here. They took the opportunity to spread the limit the bad feeling.
The reason everything is expensive in Australia is because of the never ending cycle of wage increase followed by price rises to pay for it. Somewhere along the line the bubble will burst.
Australia has become fat and very lazy. We won't work anymore. We want paid time off for everything and shorter hours and huge wages for basically unskilled work. In the Utopian world this is great. In the real world it doesn't work. Government can't protect us all from the reality of living beyond our means. It's only our own money they have to spend after all.
Interesting tidbit from GM.
General Motors, the target of sniping over new CEO Mary Barra's pay, disclosed earlier than usual that her compensation this year will be $14.4 million — but just $1.6 million as a direct salary.
Not a bad short and long term pay packet.
So she's going to have to struggle through!
Im in the marine constuction industry where i come into contact with contractors from overseas. I can tell you i make triple what most of these guys make. How long is it going to be before we outsource my job. Don't get me wrong ive been in a union all of my working life, but where is the line between Australian jobs or cheaper overseas contractors. Tony( buggie smuggler) Abbot looks like he wants to go with the socialist state or even a dictatorship. Not a major fan of unions because of what they did in the 90's but what other avenue is there.
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