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Originally Posted by jpd80
Perhaps we’re looking at post WWII with 2020 eyes,
the government was dead broke and all that they could
do was encourage an established manufacturer to take
a chance on Australia
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Maybe there is a bit of that. However Germany, Japan and South Korea all facing nation rebuilding after war (and in the case of the two Asian countries little natural resources) managed to build viable automotive industries. Indeed South Korea is big on many fronts ship building, electronics, etc. We however wasted the opportunities of the 1950s and 1960s and I suspect a lot of that blame rests on the shoulders of the Liberal and Country parties of that era and Pig Iron Bob Menzies.