Come on people, open your eyes.

A promise to the miners who HAVE lost their jobs would have to be funded out of the current budget. That is about horrific enough to reduce labor to a cricket team as it is, without adding miners compensation.

Ford has sacked no one yet, so no payout by this government. As usual the cunning witch is promising that Abbott's government will pay. Yet another land mine to attempt to make it harder for them to bring the budget back to balance.

Pelican do you really think the NBN will continue, in it's present disastrous form, after the stuff hits the fan with out mining exports, & our income. It is so bad the Labor mob have kept it out of the budget by another of their cunning tricks. It's catastrophic mess will only appear in a couple of years.

And I'm sorry Pelican. but the NDIS is one of those land mines Julia is leaving to harm most of the community, & Abbott in particular. There is no chance it can be implemented as it stands, or even in a drastically watered down version. It is a typical cynical vote buying promise, of the type the woman is truly famous for. Any heart in Julia is solid stone, & bleeds acid.

Most understand, clearly not all.
Gillard will be gone in the three full years till the closure.
Many, not all, know Abbott as did Howard *IN SUPPORTING HIS OWN BROTHER*
National Textiles bankruptcy,may support these workers.
Many are aware, not all, but many, it is standard fair, to support victims of mass job loss.
It is my view, bigotry aside, we should not support car makers, any of them.
IF in the future General motors holden folds here too, Toyota may become more able to continue to produce cars here.
Support for unviable industry,s is, at best window cleaning in a building set for demolition.

Lexi,
I don't have to google Bluescope. The info comes straight from your beloved ABC and let me tell you it was pretty damming of the government. Dispite the promises the employees still have few jobs and I forget just how many were put off, it was quite a lot.

If the management spent our money on big payouts to themselves that can only mean poor management by the government, which is not surprizing in view of their previous performances.

I can clearly recall Whitlam saying the "Tarriffs don't protect jobs, they only protect profits" when he introduced tarrif cuts. since then we have lost most of our industry. But Julia will keep on lieing.
Ford workers should not hold their breath waiting for assistance on the say so of Julia.

Pelican,
The NBN is costing far more than originally budgeted for and the roll out behind and few are taking it up.

The Gonski education matter has not been funded.

The NDIS has not been funded either. The medibank levy only supplies about $3 billion and it will cost 4 times that per anumn to run it. I am also told that oldies will not qualify because of their age, but they are the most likely group to become disabled because of stroke and falls, etc. I have said before that many will not qualify.

This government lies through its teeth, buying votes with money they do not have.

The truth is that not one single production line worker will gain a new position in the Disability Head office in Geelong. These jobs will go to the ALP cronies displaced after the election.
These plants are state of the art facilities. You really think the are just going to be closed and allowed to rust away.
Common sense says another car-maker will buy them for a song and start producing cars that we need, can afford, and have a place in our eco society.

chrisgaff1000, if you can't make Falcons in the plant, & make a profit from them, there is nothing you can make.

There is more profit to be made from larger cars, making small hatches with almost as much "stuff" in them, & selling them for $14,000 is going to loose even more money.

Have a look at the remains of many car factories around Detroit, & you'll see what use they are.

Car makers don't actually make much. It takes a multitude of moderately large companies producing most of their parts for them. The expertise required is not small, & small companies can not afford the technical people required. Loss of even one market as in Ford could see this expertise to be too expensive to maintain.

There is absolutely nothing wanted by your "eco society", that could possibly be sold in the numbers required to be viably produced in Oz. Those trying world wide are loosing a fortune. It appears car makers actually believed the global warming scam, & what governments promised they were going to do, when they thought there were votes in it.