The closure of Holden’s Elizabeth plant on October 20, 2017, ended automotive mass production in Australia for the foreseeable future. This date marks one of the blackest days in the nation’s industrial history and the flow-on effects of this closure will entail the loss of up to 50,000 jobs and the businesses that provided them. Governments will offer the usual assistance and adjustment packages that have punctuated the stages of Australian de-industrialisation, delivered wit…
