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  • Published 20140805
  • ISBN: 9781922182425
  • Extent: 264 pp
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‘WHAT YOU NEED to understand is that automotive work is very monotonous.’

I was in a restaurant in Port Melbourne last year with an economist, who was explaining why Australia not only did not need, but should not mourn the end of its century of assembling then making cars for its roads. 

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