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LFC said:
yes sad it is NCB for the rest of us generally as well.
VIC I get it from back the early days due all its manufacturing, massive Union State therefore the labor remote control/habit vote even though some carry on look at the opposition.
Well look what they keep having as well - utter train wrecks.
Holden/Ford pulled out 2016/17 - Toyota followed - the massive bulk of manufacturing and countless smaller sub suppliers gonnnne.
I know of some other small Industry manufacturer's have also gone belly up since and last 2/3yrs.
Yet keep voting Labor than worrying about politician's "gift" accountability.
Where were youse all the decades Labor kept getting away with murder ?!
Not pointing at you specifically TSF.

Here in NSW I recall Prem O'Farrell lost the job over a paltry bottle of Grange not validating as gift.
I mean seriously what a joke, only the jealous ones make a issue of these types of gifts, I get mega thousands make an issue of but petty is petty as the OFarrell case beat up.
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Just to clarify, the car manufacturers stopped building vehicles in Australia when the federal government in 2013 (Tony Abbot and his treasurer Joe Hockey) ceased funding of the three car manufacturers. Toyota, Holden and Ford kept some design and testing facilities operating until 2020 when the contractual obligations ceased. Nothing to do with state government policies either in Victoria or SA.
 
I am bemused by all the doom Vic is getting here when demographers keep maintaining that Melbourne & Victoria will have the largest population overtaking Sydney & NSW within the next 10 years. We keep getting job applications from refugees from Sydney all the time. I have mentored quite a few graduates.
 
WhatAmIWatching said:
Just to clarify, the car manufacturers stopped building vehicles in Australia when the federal government in 2013 (Tony Abbot and his treasurer Joe Hockey) ceased funding of the three car manufacturers. Toyota, Holden and Ford kept some design and testing facilities operating until 2020 when the contractual obligations ceased. Nothing to do with state government policies either in Victoria or SA.
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To clarify the point is due to Vic being for decades a major Australian manufacturing hub the Labor/Union influence was massive.
Still is despite everything shutdown.
I’m in the industry I know perfectly the background what you quote might I add and there are many pieces to the puzzle.
To correct you Ford still has their design operations at Geelong and are still employing doing designs for ford Asia and other jobs Ford USA pass on for other markets.
 
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By the way and I hope you do finally achieve a higher pop than Sydney long overdue the point why many leave is Sydney’s high living costs ba boom.
You have more jobs available because post covid many have moved north mainly to Qld reports have shown in turn lifting Qlds property avg values.
 
LFC said:
Here in NSW I recall Prem O'Farrell lost the job over a paltry bottle of Grange not validating as gift.
I mean seriously what a joke, only the jealous ones make a issue of these types of gifts, I get mega thousands make an issue of but petty is petty as the OFarrell case beat up.
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Chris Hartcher says hi. If you think that was why O'Farrell lost the job I think I have a bridge I can sell you.
 
patjennings said:
Chris Hartcher says hi. If you think that was why O'Farrell lost the job I think I have a bridge I can sell you.
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No need to - there is always more but couldn’t be bothered adding turning post into paragraphs long that drive us all nuts.
 
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