Australia used to be a powerhouse in the world of manufacturing. After WW2, Australia had the 4th biggest navy and air force in the worldWhy did Australian auto industry completely flop?
The Battle of Britain movie had the 35th largest air force.
>>29016633mutts
Our leaders are fabian socialists who hate us
>>29016633When I was growing up even foreign cars were made in Australia. VW, Leyland, Datsun etc, due to local manufacturing rules in place until 1980.
>>29016659Pretty much.
>>29016633Workers wanted to get paid too much and this was reflected in the price of the cars making them too expensive, the cars were not what the market was gravitating towards, and we couldn't compete on engineering and innovation. Gov stopped subsidizing the local car industry and it withered and died on the vine bc it couldn't compete with imports. Globohomo is what killed the local car industry. I miss commos and falcons I think they were suited to our geography but anyways, it's over now and it's never coming back.
>>29016633Globalization or somethingWhy produce cars locally when you can import better and cheaper ones from Japan?
Because Australia decided it didnt want to do manufacturing and instead would become a commodity/mining and tourism hub in 2000s
>>29016696Australia is a banana republic.
>>290166331) Ending of protectionism during the globalisation boom in the second half of the 20th century2) Hockey and Abbott wholesale cutting all subsidies towards auto manufacturers in their austerity budget in 2013Manufacturing was never viable here as long as it was cheaper to import it from elsewhere.
>>29016774They still tax imports though, absolutely jewish.
>>29016659The liberal party has been in power for the majority of the country's history retard.
>>29017685You obviously don't know what the fabian socialists did mid last century then, retard. We call it the uniparty for a reason.
>>29016633You can't have a powerful military, when your goal is to euthanize society and replace the citizens with 3rd wold savages. The risk of blowback is too great.
>>29016633It was cheaper to build and employ manufacturing in SEAland over Oceania
>>29018238Explain the US then.
Australia used to reskin american slop. Fuck "australian cars" desu. Insufferable faggot boomers can get fucked.
>>29018280That stopped from the 70s onward. The XC Falcon was entirely Australian.
>>29018263They're doing the same shit here. White Replacement is rampant, especially in transportation and trucking, and in tech. Trump wants to stop it but he's a pussy and won't end the H-1B program which is how these browns get here.The US military recruits heavily in areas with little job opportunities and in poor rural black areas which is pretty much every Republican red state and county
>>29018350>Trump wants to stop itWrong. None of them do.
>>29018263It was exactly the same in the US. The minute Pedophile "won" the '20 election, he began decimating the military budgets and getting rid of any of the intelligent people - leaving only the vaxxoids and packing it with trannies, women, preggo's and other useless people.
>>29018571Trump didn't win in 2020?
>>2901901520-24 was Biden. He's literally describing Trump THO filling in key positions with his own dumbass lackeys
cliche answer, neoliberalismthe only justification for an industry to exist was if it was profitable. whether it was strategically important didn't matter, there was no strategy.
