Ah what exactly is all the support Agriculture receives?

The reason there "used" to be so many Australian built cars was because of market protection. You had little choice on what you bought. I don't say that was a bad thing though. Once removed we are now over run with brands.

Perfect storm is a American public opinion winning bit of rubbish just the same as other examples like WHAMO from the Vietnam war. Read a couple of books written by Australian journalists on how the Americans released information to the media and the catch phrases they used to try and make it look like they were doing well. The process has not changed for America.

We need industry in Australia, but not government subsidised industry owned by other countries. That's the bottom line.