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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  26th of April 2012

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

Isherwood: STOP killing the Australian-made car

“Is the Australian government working on a plan to force a quick end to car manufacturing in Australia?” demanded Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today.

“They’ll deny it of course—they’re lying politicians—but the litany of crises that have rocked the car industry wouldn’t be happening unless there was a clear, top-down intention to shut down the industry entirely, and fast.”

Isherwood said that the CMI/Ford crisis this week beggared belief.

“The government made a big show of giving money to the car companies as inducements to keep production in Australia, to look like it supported the industry and its thousands of employees.

“But since then, key parts suppliers such as APV and now CMI have started going to the wall, threatening the hundreds of jobs in those companies and the thousands in the factories who rely on those parts, and the government is doing effectively nothing.

“It is bizarre that CMI’s $116,000 in unpaid rent is being allowed to threaten the jobs of 1,800 Ford workers.

“What’s going on? This wouldn’t be happening if the government was truly committed to car manufacturing.”

Australian manufacturing was targeted for annihilation from the moment in 1989 when Bob Hawke and Paul Keating adopted Ross Garnaut’s report, Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendancy.

Keating’s expressed intention, reported in his biography, was that Australia’s economic future under free trade was to be a raw materials exporter; if other industries survived, fine, but they would no longer be a priority.

Keating and his accomplices were determined to dismantle the entire edifice of war and post-war protectionist policies under which Australia had developed into an advanced, agro-industrial economy.

The car industry, for example, has only ever existed with government support; it was developed in an era when government leaders such as Curtin, Chifley and “Black Jack” McEwen knew that having such an intensive manufacturing industry would give Australia an advanced industrial capability which would be the basis of a high-skilled, high-wage economy.

By Keating committing Australia to free trade, which has been continued by every government since—Howard, Rudd and Gillard—and will be further continued by Tony Abbott, he and his successors committed Australia to the self-destruction of our agro-industrial production capability.

Isherwood concluded, “I’m calling for an end to economic retreat. It is time to reclaim our industries and throw out the policies that are turning us into an industrial wasteland.

“I call on the manufacturing workers, and the unions who claim to represent them, to support the CEC’s Develop or Die resolution. Every Australian who isn’t stupid enough to believe in free trade should also support the call. Let’s strike political fear into the free trade nutters in Canberra, and stop this deliberate destruction of our economy.”

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