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Edit...^^^^^^ What he said.
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It's not the car factory itself that is vital, it's the knowledge and expertise and skills built up from having that capability that is so important.
The car makers provide Australia with a design and engineering economies of scale, these flow onto other industries such as defense and mining. Remember that for recent years Holden was the biggest private company spender on Research and Development in this country. The mechanical engineering, design and manufacturing capability this country gets because of that is staggering. |
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Remove car makers from this equation (and the R&D they spend here and the training they provide to do it) and guess what happens to those 2nd level automotive manufacturers/industries...
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