Is Australian auto-manufacturing still an industry worthy of government assistance?
“I don’t know the figures for how many people are directly employed in automotive manfacturing, I’d guess about 10,000, and we don’t know exactly how much the grants and kick-backs from the federal and state governments are, but if it’s around one billion dollars a year, you just have to do the maths to come up with $100,000 per employee. Is that fair? Is that viable?”
Suzuki general manager Tony Devers speaking to The Age, earlier this week, about federal government support for local auto-manufacturing. Is it fair? Is it viable? Have your say.
