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Lecturers: Royce Kurmelovs
Entry: FREE

Synopsis

Everyone has a different idea about what killed the Australia car industry, but few people have a good grasp of what we're losing.

For the migrant men that came from across the world to build the Australian car, those factories meant everything. It was hard work, but it meant a house, it meant a family, it meant a comfortable life.

Some people used the car factories to get their start, others stayed for life. Sometimes, they even gave their kids over to the factory, too. But as of October 2017, the whole thing is shutting down and we have yet to come to grips with what that means.

Bio

Royce Kurmelovs is a journalist from Adelaide, South Australia. He has written for the BBC, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The San Francisco Bay Guardian and others.

His 2016 book The Death of Holden chronicles the lives of people across South Australia and Victoria living through the end of the Australian car industry.

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