Very sad indeed.
Blame can be distributed to this or that. But the truth is why would any car manufacturer (or other manufacturer for that matter), burden themselves with the high labour cost that Aus has comparered to other developing nations in Asia or South America for example.
It's not a matter of "if" but sadly "when" the others fall by the way side also.
What upsets me most is that as obvious as this is the dumb ass government still thinks its a good idea to pump money into them to keep em afloat under the guise of saving jobs.
More like prolonging the inevitable and lining the pockets of the bigs wigs.