Re: Australian Car Industry
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:58 pm
Toyota have pulled the pin, finishing up in 2017.
Australian car manufacturing ... RIP
Australian car manufacturing ... RIP
tigerpie wrote:Australian manufacturing RIP!
Without the innovating r and d programs that the car industry generates, we are in big strife...
So many job losses and technology losses. We will now be known as the dumb country when it comes to local manufacturing.
scoob wrote:I find it confusing that the ALP are so anti-big corporates, yet are willing to give $25M of the taxpayers money to Coca Cola?
bennymacca wrote:tigerpie wrote:Australian manufacturing RIP!
Without the innovating r and d programs that the car industry generates, we are in big strife...
So many job losses and technology losses. We will now be known as the dumb country when it comes to local manufacturing.
most of our recent cards werent designed here anyway, they werent doing that much in the way of r&d, that ship had already sailed.
speaking of ships, it is about the only high end manufacturing left (and submarines). BAE still make the bushmaster APCs too, though that is small scale compared to the car indursty ask a whole.
I think it is time we invested in high end skills, if our future isnt in manufacturing, it could be in things like IT and software engineering, and other highly skilled jobs (like electronic engineering hopefully haha)
HP have announced 400 new jobs in adelaide, that is a good start
Jimmy_041 wrote:and looking to make over $500m in Nett profit after tax for 2013
but SPC Ardmona is a problem for them
In the 2012 Annual Report, they blame the high AUD for SPCA's problems
Not sure where that's disappeared to now we're under 90c
tigerpie wrote:I would like to know where you get that information from. I've worked in the industry for many, many years, and thats not correct.
Our high volume manufacturing r and d is/was world class and most of it was generated by, or for, automotive engineering!
tigerpie wrote:bennymacca wrote:tigerpie wrote:Australian manufacturing RIP!
Without the innovating r and d programs that the car industry generates, we are in big strife...
So many job losses and technology losses. We will now be known as the dumb country when it comes to local manufacturing.
most of our recent cards werent designed here anyway, they werent doing that much in the way of r&d, that ship had already sailed.
speaking of ships, it is about the only high end manufacturing left (and submarines). BAE still make the bushmaster APCs too, though that is small scale compared to the car indursty ask a whole.
I think it is time we invested in high end skills, if our future isnt in manufacturing, it could be in things like IT and software engineering, and other highly skilled jobs (like electronic engineering hopefully haha)
HP have announced 400 new jobs in adelaide, that is a good start
I would like to know where you get that information from. I've worked in the industry for many, many years, and thats not correct.
Our high volume manufacturing r and d is/was world class and most of it was generated by, or for, automotive engineering!