LETTERS*

Car industry is dying
Sir,
Of the 917,000 new cars sold last year in Australia, 233,000 (25 per cent) were made or assembled from imported parts in Australia. Cars fully manufactured in Australia accounted for just 12.7 per cent of total sales.
This compares with 450,323 vehicles made locally in 1980 when the Australian population was 14.5 million.
People have blamed many factors for the decline of the local car-manufacturing industry. Chief among these include the switch to …

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