“Let’s do something. Let’s employ people,” says Marshall Baxter, head of Australia’s oldest footwear company, who is contemplating a return to full-scale local production following the budget's confirmation of the $5 billion-plus 2020 manufacturing plan.
The famed Baxter footwear brand has been in the family’s hands for five generations.
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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
