Nobody yet seems to know quite what will happen next with the Mitsubishi motor vehicle manufacturing plant in South Australia, but the signs are not good. In any case the company’s future seems out of local hands – unless, that is, the government decides to step in.And therein lies a tale.So far the government is playing it cool – as one might expect. But that has not stopped all kinds of media speculation about what could or should be done.Alan Mitchell, economics editor of the Australian Finan…
