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Holden to Employ more Engineers

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Holden have announced the employment of around 150 new Engineers to work on the designing of new alternative fuelled vehicles for the future.

Next they'll even think of manufacturing cars in Australia..........who would've thought eh ??
 

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Holden have announced the employment of around 150 new Engineers to work on the designing of new alternative fuelled vehicles for the future.
Next they'll even think of manufacturing cars in Australia..........who would've thought eh ??

What's interesting is that GM Holden Engineering Group has been renamed as GM Australia.
GM Global Engineering distancing itself from the Holden sales company.. Just as what Holden design group did. From memory they were renamed to GM Design Australia.
 

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Does this mean they will be scabbing more of the Aussie tax payers money?
 

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Does this mean they will be scabbing more of the Aussie tax payers money?

Oooh, you ask a good question.
Are they employing engineers from another country on a work visa (457?) with Australian government funded subsidies?

Maybe it depends on whether those engineers are employed by an Australian government subsidized company (does the GM company have the word Australia in it?)
 

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Does this mean they will be scabbing more of the Aussie tax payers money?

Most countries subsidise their car manufacturing industries, so how is Australia any different?
 

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It doesn't have a car industry.

But it seems like they want to start it back up again....So what would be the problem subsidising it, when most countries subsidise their car industries?
 

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But it seems like they want to start it back up again....So what would be the problem subsidising it, when most countries subsidise their car industries?

I have no problem at all with subsidising a car manufacturing industry in Australia.

People have lost site of the other industries that are far more heavily subsidised than car manufacturing was.

Property ponzi I'm looking at you.
 

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Do Kenworth, Mack and Western star e.g. Get subsidies because they’re still assembled here and many components locally.
Trucks and machinery are still made here in Australia not everything has left our shores.
 
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