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Originally Posted by Road_Warrior
. However the article clearly stated that Broady declined the offer of assistance - FoA does have a degree of autonomy and I think its pretty clear they aren't interested.
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Doesnt mean FoA has a degree of autonomy at all. What it means is that the Head office is basically saying " we dont care what sort of assistance you are going to give us, especially if we have to put in $2 for every $1 of Government money".
If FoA had some say in the matter, they would have taken what assistance they could, and attempted to ramp up exports. Ford Head office, would have been thinking, why should we be spending money on a high cost manufacturing plant, to try and compete with our low cost exporting plants from thailand etc.
What the articles does say, is that politicians (and remember Kim Carr was a teacher before he become a politician (car expert)), probably dont have the expertise of running large companies like the CEO and CFO of Ford, do.