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Toyota has officially ended more than half a century of manufacturing vehicles in Australia. Approximately 3,000 people attended a ceremony today at the company’s Altona plant including current and former employees, suppliers, affiliate companies and officials from Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan. Fifty-four years since the first Toyota vehicle was …

Ford today closes a chapter in Australia as it bids farewell to 600 manufacturing employees and shutters its manufacturing plant for the last time after 91 years of building cars in the country. 160 manufacturing employees have been or will be redeployed from Ford’s plants to new design and engineering …