An Australian made Philips from 1985.

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Well thanks !

Possibly it was protectionism for the local manufacturers.... Today we hear a lot of strange stories about how China is protecting their local market in what seem strange ways that end up hurting the company that wants to move there.... Avon for example which among many cosmetics brands that have given up animal testing, was required to test on animals to enter the China market. Thus hurting their brand globally. Many people here are unhappy our gov. did not do much to protect our local tv manufacturing when Japan came in and did evil things here, like dumping cheaper more reliable tvs, and later cars in our local market. Of course if I were the age I am now when all this was going on, I would have been much more up on all the in's and out's of those stories... I don't remember much about the tv's but for the cars, consumers got a better deal.....