Ok 579, so do you think the Abbott gov should continue to unconditionally continue to support the car industry?

As for the low paid you mention, a production worker on up to $100K per year is hardly what I would class as a low paid worker, because after all, the Holden workers are the ones I'm talking about, not child care workers.

As a coumtry, we are in melt down amd still you hide your head in the sand.

The signs have been there for several years, you just need the ability to read between the lines, something you appear not to have.

maybe Mr Abbott might be able to privatise the ABC in order to create a little balance. The obscene tax payer funded wages for the socialist could then be used to subsidise people doing real work.

Holden gone,QANTAS going, Rio up north going the card house is starting to crumble and its all down to the unions and their belief that their members are worth more than the creators of wealth.
Some of these union bosses should read Ayn Rand {Atlas Shrugged] and get some idea of what happens when you push the boss too far.
No place for overpowered utes here in Australia anyway. Now we have a trade agreement with South Korea just watch the cheap, well made small cars flood in to Aus.

I am upset that Holden appears to be gone.
I was hoping that Mr Abbott could have done
something to save this from happening.
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a miracle.

I watched Bill Shorten's tirade in "Question Time,"
and couldn't help but note that after years of
blaming everything on the previous government Mr
Abbott and his Cabinet can't be surprised when
this new development with Holden is now blamed on them.

Because we all know that Mr Abbott and his senior
colleagues would have
reacted in exactly the same way to the news - had it happened
while they were in Opposition. There would have been
hell to pay for Labor - for the disappearance of
an Australian Icon on their watch. Mr Abbott and his team
would have rolled out the soundbites about the
disastrous impact of the carbon tax and the economic
incompetence of the previous government. Nothing would
have been allowed to detract from an effective attack.

Ah, politics, what fun it is.(not!).

Hey Butch,
You know you are right. You've opened my eyes. The unions.

A miracle "Ping"

Instant diagnosis Butch; Always right and never wrong.

Sorry Butch it's incurable

A few more thoughts on saving holden:

1) There have been businesses in Australia that
were shutting down until the workers took over
and bought shares and a few companies were able to
continue with manufacturing and keeping afloat.

2) The government can take over Holden, buy shares,
sell shares to the workers and the public. Parts
manufacturers can band together and take over the
production and make it an all round local success.

3) Holden can continue as a wholly Australian
product - not a General Motors branch of Detroit.

4) The reality is that General Motors is shutting shop
at many of its plants in the US and the Pacific region.

5) Why give money to General Motors when it ends up
in Detroit? Keep it in Australia.