THE Australian car market hasn't suffered a setback at all since September, according to some new-car dealers. Rather, it has simply fallen back to the sales levels it would have experienced were it not for factory-backed incentives, cut-throat dealing and other factors that fostered an overheated market.
CAR salesmen, real estate agents and investment bankers are among the unlucky workers in Australia's top 10 most vulnerable industries for 2009, according to a new report by research house IBISWorld.
WHEN Kat Armstrong first held up a bank, she was terrified. Usually she just drove the getaway car, but this time the ringleader insisted she accompany him inside with a pistol. "I was crying underneath my balaclava," she said.