Made in Aus - poll., page-25

we never were ------------ only on a local scale, never on an international scale

Rubbish - in the post war period up to the 80s we build and exported cars



''A substantial car industry was created in Australia in the 20th century through the opening of Australian plants by international manufacturers. The first major carmaker was Ford Australia and the first Australian-designed mass production car was manufactured by Holden in 1948. Australian manufacture of cars rose to a maximum of almost half a million in the 1970s (10th place in the World) and still exceeded 400,000 in 2004.^[1] Australia was best known for the design and production of 'large' sized passenger vehicles.^[2] By 2009 total production had fallen to around 175,000 and the Australian market was dominated by cars imported from Asia and Europe.''

Australia used to export cars to many SE Asia and Pacific countries as well as Sth Africa (and the USA in the 80s)