Holden's signs similar to Mitsubishi when it closed Adelaide plant

[Speedy Gonzales]

Labor have been in charge for 11 years in SA, Holden looks like its going to chop again soon, why do these guys keep voting them in if all they get is made redundant?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-0...holden/4678574

$153 mill loss and they want another handout, whats the bet we give them the handout, and they chop a few months down the track?

[Marco]

I'm not really seeing what the political colour of the SA Government has to do with Holden - or are you suggesting the Libs would pull all support out from under the company? Because if that's the case, it sounds like an excellent reason for the good people of SA to re-elect Labor.

[forcedindction]

Agree with you Marco. Post preceding doesn't make sense to me.

High Aussie dollar seems to be a common denominator in manufacturing. Perhaps a hefty mining tax was a good idea.

[Ausmartin1]

Agree with you Marco. Post preceding doesn't make sense to me.

High Aussie dollar seems to be a common denominator in manufacturing. Perhaps a hefty mining tax was a good idea.

Sadly it's not just the high dollar - it's the high wages - yes even over there in SA.

It's like we are heading in exactly the same direction as North America and we haven't learned a thing.
Today on the news .. local Glaxo pill packers will be out of a job.

This is just plain wrong, as we need to keep our quality food production, medicine production on Australia's soil for our own good health.

I think we can thank the unions for being out maneuvered by both governments and multinational corporations with privatizations of
essential services: Electricity, Power, communications - water next ? and we all pay to make a profit.
Our local electricity distributor is Singapore Power (SPAusnet) I read in the paper they wish to sell 60% to the Chinese now
- Latest test of Gillard's new Welcome financial mat to the Chinese Communist regime.
Then we - will pay and the profits will go North.

Remmber when Old school Australians were loyal and planned for the long term future of the country and it's people
vs
Now 2013 it's like the US - QUICK money TODAY - now - any way you can screw a dollar - do it, so forget decency, morality - cut it fine to the legal edge, maximize todays profit.
Peoples health, well being don't matter on the corporate bottom line.

It's like products, all the Australian decent long lasting quality product manufactured here are nearly all gone - as those business made too good a product.
Replaced by products - imported that look the part, last just long enough so you can save up to buy another one and think it good value.

End of the day if the Australian car industry vanished it would be a very bad thing for the manufacturing industry, however it fails to even compare the more serious important local areas of medicine and food production - instead bringing those dubious quality products from third world countries (But hey it's cheap and we make a bigger profit - but can you eat it ? )

I don't think we have leant anything from the USA and we are heading for a similar train wreck if we all keep it up.

I'm surprised at the politics of US people these days, the hatred from some regarding the perceived wrong type of American made car that has a tax grant etc. or is made by GM which got the bail out - is just staggering and I hope we don't ever go the same way, how things have changed - Yet a lot of imported cars are still over priced !

Interesting times.