• protist@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Australia’s car manufacturing industry is basically non-existent, they import almost all of them. The EU and US have huge manufacturing bases they’re trying to protect

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        5 months ago

        Really? I don’t know a ton about this, but it looks like American and Japanese manufacturers are the only ones to have ever operated in Australia

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          5 months ago

          I’m not super into cars, but it’s my understanding Holden was a local manufacturer that got bought out by GM? Or if not that, then they were making specifically Australian vehicles despite being part of GM, much like Ford Australia used to. Both ended up shutting down operations down here, so now we have nothing local.

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          5 months ago

          We had Australian made and designed cars, then gm bought out Holden and ran it into the ground before shuttering the brand entirely.

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      Adelaide killed big chunks of their public transport system to appease Holden, who fucked off anyway. Still salty.

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      Thanks to Joe Hockey and the LNP government who decided it wasn’t strategically important to have high value manufacturing in Australia.