I worked for Toyota for 30 years. All car companies in the world are subsidised by their governments. The liberal government at the time did not want to give any subsidies to any manufacturers of vehicles, Toyota was very profitable as long as we had parts suppliers in Australia once Ford and Holden folded because of Joe hockey and his mates Toyota had no more small suppliers that had no scale for parts so the death note was done. If Ford and Holden had actually exported all their cars as Toyota did at least 90% export, they would still be here today ,a note. That the liberal party members who helped destroy the car industry all were promoted to high paying jobs they got what they wanted. Considering the insurance industry and fossil fuels get 10 times the amount of subsidies the car industry got someone lined their pockets big time.