SA:PM launches new Australian car

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2011
SA:PM launches new Australian car

By Tim Dornin

ADELAIDE, Feb 28 AAP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has evoked the memory of former
leader Ben Chifley as she drove the first Australian-made Holden Cruze off the production
line in Adelaide.

Ms Gillard said it was in 1948 that prime minister Chifley, who was then rebuilding
Australia after World War II, launched the first locally-built Holden.

More than 60 years later, she said the cars the company now produced were unrecognisable
from those of the past.

"But the spirit of this event is the same. A celebration of what our …