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• Dave June 9, 2017 at 5:32pm

  I blame disco
  
  The world has gone downhill every year since
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  Mr 'BringBackFitzy' Analyst June 9, 2017 at 5:36pm

  Those were the days.....my father owned a Holden Kingswood and brother SS V8 Holden Torana.
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  My Bob June 9, 2017 at 5:43pm

  No simple answer.
  Globalisation
  Reduction in tariffs
  Lower cost of money allowing Brand conscious buyers to "step" up to prestige Euro brands
  Unions unrealistic work place conditions in the car manufacturing industry that priced the product away from profits
  Local manufacturers not reading the market, no smalll to medium SUV's, in other words, no product the buyers en masse wanted
  Increasingly excellent value for money Korean brands
  So no simple answer
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    brad > My Bob June 9, 2017 at 5:58pm

    I love the way you blame the unions for pushing prices up. We are a first world country and you would like people to be on third world wages. The problem is greedy business's wanting to exploit the third world wages by going off shore and then sell their products in a free market back to the first world for as much as they can get. The unions did nothing but react to the cost of living.
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  Half a chance June 9, 2017 at 5:44pm

  Fck, I got to buy myself an Aussie muscle car before I die!!
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  My Bob June 9, 2017 at 6:07pm

  I listed a few reasons not just the unions. If you do some homework you will understand that some of the work practices demanded by the unions in this industry were unreasonable. I don't want people to be on third world wages at all, however the unions were a catalyst in this down fall by their unwillingness to be reasonable, now their members have no industry.
  You do understand that the Australian government had subsided this industry to the tune of hundreads of millions and yet it was still unsustainable, also economies of scale played their part.
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  Wizardssleeves official receipts June 9, 2017 at 6:08pm

  
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  brad June 9, 2017 at 6:20pm

  Bob, the "union" does not set the agenda, the agenda is given to the negotiation committee by the members.
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    My Bob > brad June 9, 2017 at 6:32pm

    Yes I'm sure the leadership takes their instructions from the members. I'm sure the leaders don't just get a tacit nod from the members to approve their agenda.
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  Half a chance June 9, 2017 at 6:36pm

  The torana and hq are the only real cars I'm seeing.