.....Yet they manage to produce twice as many cars as the US.

SteeleRedux It's called strong work ethics, and our car industries just don't have it.

Besides, the unions simp,y won't allow it. From car industries, through production industries, the docks and the building industries.

Infact, the unions quite often seam to want to be disruptive rather than assisting industries. Not to mention down right crims at times.

If we want manufacturing back to the first world...there is only one, way bring back import tariffs, the right of a sovereign nation to decide what tax to impose on imports that KILL local manufacturing.

You will not hear any of the imbeciles we elect going near that one. To do that we have to tell the IMF, World Bank, the UN Development agency and the European Banking cartel to take a running leap.

I REPETE MY FIRST POST
“Just a thought – why don’t we tell GM and Ford to just leave the plant and remove themselves back to the good old USA; after all we, the taxpayers, have paid for the plant over the years under all stripes of government; we take those plants in Vic & SA and create a new company to design and produce cars for Australia and export.
After the enterprise is up and running we float it on the ASX. This would not fit well with the current mob, but one can dream of better things”
In 1855 when the Sydney Railway Company went belly up NSW’s first rail project was taken over by government and became the first government owned railway in the world;
Come on boys and girls we can do it today for the car industry, don’t let Wall St and Macquarie Bank dictate Australia’s futur

JMCC you tell us, "In 1855 when the Sydney Railway Company went belly up NSW’s first rail project was taken over by government and became the first government owned railway in the world;". The only thing you fail to mention, they have beam loosing money ever since.

I don't want to knock, so I suggest we give it to the unions, with a rock solid guarantee of not one more cent in subsidy. That should finish the unions once & for all.

What a government run car industry could loose each & every year, would make even the railways look profitable.

Was that a ‘Hasbeen’ from general society prior to joining the Tea Party?
Why is it you far right Tories want to constantly put down the Australian Workers, is it to line the pockets of multi national companies, who having raped and pillaged a nation, pulls up the tent and moves on to the next unsuspecting country who offer cheep labour and taxpayer subsidies? Come on old mate explain.

Hasbeen has never had a kind word for humanity ever. And not likely to change any time soon. A professional knocker.