Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Tom Phillips, former chief executive of Mitsubishi said: 'Consumer shifts and the sheer volume of models available as the market opened up, meant that Australian car manufacturers were also battling. The car industry made a deliberate decision over a very long period of time that it was not economically viable to continue in Australia.' Let me give you some figures under Labor. In 2007, the annual total sales of locally produced vehicles was 200,045. In 2008 it was 171,042; in 2009, 147,680; in 2010 146,314; in 2011, 141,139; in 2012, 139,796; and in 2013, 118,510. That was under you, Senator Carr.