Holden managing director Mike Devereux has threatened to end car production in Australia if employees at its Adelaide plant fail to accept a…
Holden managing director Mike Devereux has threatened to end car production in Australia if employees at its Adelaide plant fail to accept a…
“You’ll never see Japanese cars in an RSL car park.” That was Bill Bourke, Ford Australia’s sales supremo of the ’60s. Bourke w…
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Ford has announced plans to end car production in Australia. It confirms to Old Taskmaster that, despite …
Former Ford chief executive Jac Nasser has predicted the end of the Australian car manufacturing industry, saying poor market conditions, in…
Holden has cut 500 jobs across Melbourne and South Australia citing poor market conditions. The future of its remaining employees is also …
Over the past 12 years, General Motors Holden pocketed $2.2 billion in federal government handouts, according to figures published this week…
The collapse of car parts maker Autodom has grabbed all the headlines over the weekend, but this morning there are two more bits of bad news…
There are four facts we have all become aware of in the past few days – if not months – regarding car manufacturing subsidies. Fact …
The manufacturing sector has lost 125,000 jobs in the last four years. Car component and manufacturing industries are over represented in th…
The industry group representing automotive component manufacturers has warned some jobs could be lost in the supply chain as a result of For…
Do you get the feeling we’ve been had? Just months after Prime Minister Julia Gillard was telling us how $103 million in taxpayer hando…
Congratulations, dear reader. We – and I mean all taxpayers here – have now become “strategic co-investors” in the production of Hol…
