Nostalgia can be a powerful thing, as anyone who has texted an old flame at 3am can tell you.

Yet, like the inebriated man fumbling through long-lost loves late at night, sometimes you are better off leaving the past in the past.

This is a lesson many of us have learned the hard way: the past is usually the past for a reason.

So it is with Australia's car manufacturing industry.

Andrew Hastie has put out a viral social media post lamenting that Australia is no longer a country that makes complex things.

In particular, he lamented the demise of Australia's car industry and that the Liberals and Labor let the car industry disappear from Australia.

It's an interesting choice of words ... "let". It implies a hostage situation had developed, Australia had left the door unlocked, and the

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