I think it's disgraceful that we seem so blas� about our LNP government throwing away this expertise. It is more than the jobs of thousands of employees. It is national moral at stake. The Koreans must be rubbing their hands while laughing at those antipodean white folk so willing to bend over.
We are also breaking a traditional connection with our American brothers that was built up over many eras. Holden saved GM from itself by being the last bastion of rear wheel drive passenger cars in the GM universe, who foolishly went headlong into a front wheel drive future, alienating many loyal customers in the American domestic scene.
It seems it hasn't hit home in the national consciousness yet, untile car production here becomes the past tense and we will feel like a backwater that imports our stuff.
Hyundai vs Toyota won't carry the same weight.
