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  • Published: 21 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780143570875
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 200
  • RRP: $17.99
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End of the Road?: Penguin Special




In this engaging and insightful analysis for the lay reader, Gideon Haigh explains why the industry has become an ideological battleground, and reveals the more complex and surprising truth behind the partisan rhetoric.

Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom – a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all.  In this engaging and insightful analysis for the lay reader, Gideon Haigh explains why the industry has become an ideological battleground, and reveals the more complex and surprising truth behind the partisan rhetoric.
 
 

  • Published: 21 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780143570875
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 200
  • RRP: $17.99
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About the author

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism career. His cricket books include The Cricket War, The Summer Game and On Warne, and he has written on subjects from abortion, asbestos and architecture to incest and HV Evatt. The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Certain Admissions won a Ned Kelly Prize for true crime. Haigh has appeared widely on radio and TV and lives in Melbourne.

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Praise for End of the Road?: Penguin Special

No one cuts through the knee-jerk platitudes of the commentariat quite like Gideon Haigh ... In this exhilaratingly fierce critique, Haigh never loses sight of what really matters: the workers, their communities and the quality of the products they make.

Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald

Awards & recognition

John Button Prize

Longlisted  •  2014  •  Best Book

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