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Originally Posted by prydey
while everyone likes to point fingers and find someone to blame, the reality of the situation often gets forgotten.
Is there another island, with the population size of australia, with an automotive manufacturing industry?
once globalisation started a couple of decades ago, it was going to become increasingly difficult to maintain an industry in this country even with support from within. Being surrounded by water has logistical challenges that other manufacturing countries, even the smaller ones, just don't have. Not to mention the population sizes are considerably larger in other manufacturing countries so demand is higher.
The reality is, the manufacturing industry in australia probably lasted about 10years longer than it should have.
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Fact is that Australia never could of had a car industry like it did even before 1948, if Australia did not have Tariffs and that's a fact.
The Tariffs propped up our industry's take them away and the fact is that they would die, be it from 1949 on, it would of died in fact.
The main thing that hammers Australia and the USA is the currency value of Asia is so low that we can not compete with that or their lack of regulations as to workers entitlements and all.
As such we need tariffs or you are a dead duck in the water, Trump knows this and has chosen for the USA to swim and the Left and far right really wealthy people want the Nation to sink and die, so the government can walk all over the people with their love of the dictatorship Marxism Socialist so they can exploit you. the extreme rich are all about exploitation and so are the far left as they want only to dominate over all like the Cretins that they truly are.
If that moron Obama never just went and printed money like a total fool to just make himself look good in the eyes of the majority of fools, we could of exported the VE-F Commodore to the USA ect as that's why they designed the bloody car so big. so when USA was printing money this increased our dollar in fact. if our dollar was low as it is now we could of exported well as Holden were predicting to sell 50% of Commodores to the USA, as that was the game plan for the VE.