No local auto manufacturing to protect

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    Now that we dont have a local car manufacturing industry to protect, why is Government still sticking with its protectionist policy of prohibiting the importation of used car imports? One can only assume that it is to protect the economic interests of multinational car manufacturers who dropped local production like a hot potatoe once the Government cut off their corporate welfare funded by you and I, the taxpayer.

    We have a free trade agreement (FTA) with Japan and 6 other countries which has put downward pressure on wages yet Aussie workers are prohibited from importing a good/low Klm/ cheap catr from Japan. So much for Free Trade!

    We currently have a Mickey Mouse regime devised by the Multinationals in 2002 & implemented by the Howard Government which permits the importation of high powered orphan hoon cars at enormous expense via a dodgey
    RAWS system. This system as anticipated by the Multinationals is a "Claytons" scheme that has not benefitted the average Aussie.

    The Multinationals want to have the Aussie market to themselves which has resulted in Aussies paying some of the highest prices for new and used cars in the world and successive Governments have accommodated them with friendly legislation which in essence amounts to crony favouritism from both sides of politics. Just have a read of the MVSA 1989 as amended 2002!

    We should simply recognise Japanese, EC & US motor vehicle safety and vehicle security standards rather than persisting with our hybrid system originally plagiarised from te UK.

    Its silly to have a FTA with Japan which only benefits big business & multinational auto manufacturers

    Write to your MP & express concern.

    MM
 
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