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Originally Posted by AIRMAX
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- Australia has a significant Automotive Industry, big enough for it to have 3 design centers and R&D HQ from 3 BIG OEMs.
- Australia has a BIG array of automotive suppliers, with capable skills and knowdledge comparable to other countries' level.
The CONS are.
- Manufacturing Unions, Australian Unions are unrealistic. They are blind to that of other nation's manufacturing policies hence they dont see the negativities they bring to the industry... such as OEMs more incline to make plants over seas... which affects the amount of cars that can be manufactured in Australia.... Manufactured Cars in Australia = cheaper, no import tax etc.
- Australian Labour workers get paid WAY MORE than chinese, thai, south african workers.... big NO NO to OEMs also.
- Australian population and market for cars.... TINY compared to USA, Germany, Japan etc... where its common to see 300K sales of a particular car model... In Australia a successful year would see around 100K cars sold.
- Australians do not get paid much more than Americans.
American average salary/wage (white collar workers) is around 60K USD. Australian (white collar workers) is around 65K AUD. And AUD is pretty much same if not slightly more than USD at the moment.
Average Australian blue collar worker however has higher wage than their American counter parts... due to the requirements of the Unions and such. For example, I know a Road, Construction worker who gets paid 100K AUD... with no college/university qualifications.
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LOL there are more unemployed people in the USA than there are people in TOTAL in australia..
american SALARY average gets pushed up significantly by certain overpaid proffesions. show me a bell chart with their earnings, or at least tell me the standard deviation for the salaries in the states for the white collar.. its easy to put a spin on anything with simple averages, in reality averages mean shit compared to the whole spread
3 OEM manufacturers.. and how many cars are actually designed here? and how many cars are actually assambled here? or made here? if there were plants here from ~10 manufacturers, that would be impressive.. this isnt europe mate, where it doesnt matter where what factory is, its all still on the same continent, and you can still physically drive to the town where the factory is from anywhere else in europe.. this is a island.. if it isnt made here, it has to be shipped here.. and there is your problem.