BlackoutSteve
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Nick, we used to have tarrifs on imports that protected our auto industry and allowed Holden to produce Commodores, Geminis, Toranas, along with Ford's models and Chrysler and employ a heap of people.
But since the Hawke gov't's moronic "Button Plan" (after Senator John Button) that removed the industries' tariffs and all of it's protection, all makers have, or soon will, stop porducing here.
That's why we have been importing the sh!tboxes in the above post as well. We used to produce cars that size here ourselves..
Anyway, it won't be long before Toyota pull the pin too. There is no way the local parts producers will be able to survive with just one customer, so even if Toyota wanted to stay, I doubt that they could..
It is way too late to re-introduce tariffs for an all but dead industry.
You've now got 95% of drivers / import buyers, who would be furious at new tarrifs on what they are now firmly in the habit of buying. It would never pass and will never happen..
Besides, Australians in general don't give a sh!t about buying Australian either. ..and that's the real sad truth.
But since the Hawke gov't's moronic "Button Plan" (after Senator John Button) that removed the industries' tariffs and all of it's protection, all makers have, or soon will, stop porducing here.
That's why we have been importing the sh!tboxes in the above post as well. We used to produce cars that size here ourselves..
Anyway, it won't be long before Toyota pull the pin too. There is no way the local parts producers will be able to survive with just one customer, so even if Toyota wanted to stay, I doubt that they could..
It is way too late to re-introduce tariffs for an all but dead industry.
You've now got 95% of drivers / import buyers, who would be furious at new tarrifs on what they are now firmly in the habit of buying. It would never pass and will never happen..
Besides, Australians in general don't give a sh!t about buying Australian either. ..and that's the real sad truth.
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