cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16322892
While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels
Probably because we don’t make cars, or anything else. We dig stuff up, send it to China and buy it back in the form of goods.
Sounds like a colony
It is a colony. The King of England can just fire the Prime Minister any time he likes.
No he can’t. Australia, like Canada where I live, is simply a Commonwealth nation. As such Britain has absolutely zero control over politics or who leads the nation.
That’s what guns are for in the US. Hunting, recreational sport, and keeping the King of England out of your face. It’s all in the Constitution
(/s if it’s not blatantly obvious)
Asking from not knowing, are there any native Australian car manufacturers?
Obvi native as in from Aus not native as in aboriginal.
I don’t know how many of them are actually built in Australia, mind, in the same way that many American cars aren’t built here (or are vaguely assembled from parts built elsewhere)
Most of them build track cars and the like. There is certainly no mainstream car manufacturers left.
Now I’m picturing Mad Max cars…
and now I wonder what Mad Max would look like with EVs? Would they fight over batteries?
Holden was the only real one. And a few firms used to produce locally. Then the government didn’t offer any subsidies to keep them on shore. They all shut down and left the country. Now everything is imported. Real shame. They were great pipelines of talent.
Well good for Australians. they’re getting a better deal on goods.
NGL I kinda want a Polestar.
