What's the point Phil? How should the playing field be leveled? In simple terms? You need to have a simple solution otherwise no one will understand it, let alone implement it.

For a moment there I thought you were going to torch the VW. I guess it does carry that much petrol though, so would be hard to ignite.

ford & . gm are producers in many many countries australia imports many models from these outlets

Australian vechicle production runs are too small to be economic so these plants are being closed.

the product will be imported like mazda. The ford & gm brand will go on being sold here and near the

same amount of people will be required, to service the industry. when you buy a ford or gm vehicle

the biggest part of the profit goes to the overseas masters....

It's a bit more complicated than just counting the dollars per Ford employee. There are a whole lot of people not directly employed by Ford who will feel the pinch when they close down so you need to include those in the calculation.
Also, there are Australian car parts manufacturers who supply parts to the industry who will be affected and will have to scale down their ops or could even be forced to shut down altogether if their business is already marginal, and given the diminishing number of people who buy Australian made cars then that's quite possible.

I think the bottom line is, do we want a local car industry or not?
If not, then let things run their course and in 10 years they will all be gone.
Not too much different to a whole lot of other Australian manufacturing businesses. It seems we can't even make our own underdacks any more. That important job has been shipped offshore with almost everything else.
If we do want to keep some sort of manufacturing capacity, then we are obliged to look for ways to support them.
With cars, that could start by getting the government and Australian companies to buy Australian cars.
It's truly pathetic that a large proportion of guvvy cars are toyotas and hondas and anything except Australian cars, and then have to hand over my tax money to support the industry that they torpedoed by their own neglect.
But hey, isn't that what governments are good at? Spending my hard earned money?

pweedas said..

With cars, that could start by getting the government and Australian companies to buy Australian cars.
It's truly pathetic that a large proportion of guvvy cars are toyotas and hondas and anything except Australian cars, and then have to hand over my tax money to support the industry that they torpedoed by their own neglect.

I think that's exactly what they should be doing. Who cares if the employees want a choice in the car they get. Take an Aussie car or none.

I don't want to be encouraging a government employee to buy an imported car, just because they like it.

Dear Mr Government, I have a small buisness building overpriced outdated equipment that no one wants to buy! Could you send me $ 20 million to help me?

The Ute?!