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?