Those were the days, weren't they? Carefree, simple and much, much better than today. Even if you weren't yet born, the past was a rosier place, relaxed and comfortable, warm and fuzzy.

Don't take it from me, take it from Andrew Hastie. The renegade WA MP was born 12 years after the Ford Falcon GT he eulogised in his video calling for Australia to make things again.

Yet here he was, heady with nostalgia for an era that predated him, an imagined homegrown automotive heritage - Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, all giant American concerns supported by Aussie taxpayers. An automotive heritage killed off by Hastie's patron and mentor, Tony Abbott.

Ah, the good old days.

If you're a politician wanting to surf the wave of populism, nostalgia is one of the first tools you reach for. "The lat

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