Any moves to initiate change in the automotive industry must begin with a dialogue about alternative business models and technologies. In this context, governments (plural) have failed this crucial leadership test, leaving it to the private sector to come up with the solutions.

Cutting through the jargon, the question is simple - do we want cheap, imported cars or a local car industry? If we want a car industry, we will have to pay for it because a small industry in a high-cost economy simply cannot be competitive on the world stage. The "blunt instrument" of tariffs was the way we kept it going until tariffs became "sinful" in the utopian world of free trade. However, tariff protection can be fine-tuned so that enough imports come in to keep the local makers honest but still allow them to make a profit and employ, directly and indirectly, hundreds of thousand of Australians. It would mean locally-built cars that are probably a few years behind the imports in sophistication but they would be cheaper - and what's a few years anyway. For years you have been able to pay for the latest technology by spending more and buying a Beamer or Merc but most people haven't bothered as the technology filters down eventually anyway.
If you think it's more important that people should have cheap imported cars rather than maintain a technology base in the country you are consigning us to the status of a quarry/farm, selling raw materials and buying finished products at a huge loss and that's bound to catch up with us eventually.

That famous quote from Albert Einstein, well that explains what 90% of the worlds populations does!

The ALP should have bought into the companies instead of just giving them money and should ban the importing of large cars so if you want a large car it will be an Australian made car.

The laws has to change, if not; GMH, Ford Australia and Toyota will leave!

I think you need to be careful who you quote in the future, as according to Einstein your entire argument is nothing but the insane flogging of the dead horse of capitalism, to the point where the denial of the abject failure and catastrophe caused by the current meltdown is bewildering, Do you not see an that we are on the precipice of even bigger meltdown than 2008?
Here is what Mr Einstein had to say about the solution you have proffered.
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society.
Financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence.
Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.
This crippling of individual I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
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I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism