EDITORIAL: After the Ford closure: the future of the car industry*

Ford’s announcement of the closure of its manufacturing operations in Australia from 2016, with the loss of over 600 jobs in Geelong and over 500 at Broadmeadows in Victoria, is a body blow to the motor manufacturing industry, affecting hundreds of component manufacturers and thousands of their employees across the country. It will leave only two car manufacturers in Australia, Holden and Toyota, and seriously erode the economies of scale needed to preserve viable motor manufacturing in t…

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