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Australian car making is officially dead.

The last vehicle built at Holden’s Elizabeth factory in Adelaide is set to roll off the production line today, marking the closure of Holden’s domestic operations and the end of local car manufacturing. The first Holden was unveiled at Fisherman’s Bend in Melbourne in 1948, and while Australian-made cars dominated the domestic market for decades, overseas competition and the end of manufacturing subsidies forced the closure of the last car-making operations.

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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper