Holden
Australian subsidiary of General Motors, an automakerwww.holden.com.au
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Nov 9, 2026
Jon GoodallHOST
Vauxhall doesn't exist in lots of places.
Jon GoodallHOST
It's Holden, isn't it?
Karl RobinsonHOST
Well, Holden is General Motors most places.
Karl RobinsonHOST
Opel in Europe.
Karl RobinsonHOST
Opel, Opel.
Karl RobinsonHOST
And Holden in Australia.
Renato LosioGUEST
Anyway, we're
Karl RobinsonHOST
digressing again.
Jon GoodallHOST
Vauxhall doesn't exist in lots of places.
Jon GoodallHOST
It's Holden, isn't it?
Karl RobinsonHOST
Well, Holden is General Motors most places.
Karl RobinsonHOST
Opel in Europe.
Jon GoodallHOST
Opel,
Karl RobinsonHOST
Opel.
Renato LosioGUEST
And Holden in Australia.
Renato LosioGUEST
Anyway, we're
Trent NikolicHOST
In the minute that we've got left, how many people used to be employed in the industry? You saw some numbers from when were they with big numbers of employees.
Ash TurnerGUEST
Australians involved in producing and distributing GMH products circa 1960 to 61, 54,000.
Trent NikolicHOST
54,000 in 60, 61.
Ash TurnerGUEST
Yeah.
David BrownHOST
same here well i can say the good and for example twice the mitsubishi magna won it and we were talking about what a practical good car that was in its time the volkswagen passat the honda accord the lexus ls400 perhaps they've been good but Now, here I'm going to get into deep water.
David BrownHOST
1979, the Holden VB Commodore.
David BrownHOST
Yep.
David BrownHOST
It was a brave effort in the yes minister sense, wasn't it? And here we go.
David BrownHOST
sales.
David BrownHOST
No.
David BrownHOST
The bad, but the ugly in 1982, the Holden Camira.
David BrownHOST
Yeah.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
So occasionally there have been, like Macquarie Centre was built when there was already, Top Ride, for example.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
Pagewood was built because the Rand government intervened to repurpose the old General Motors Holden site because it was terribly worried about employment, and General Motors Holden had closed down.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
And so, it greenlit development there because the Pagewood Shopping Centre would create a lot of jobs.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
So, there's a few alterations like that.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
So occasionally there have been, like Macquarie Centre was built when there was already Top Ride, for example.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
Pagewood was built because the Rand government intervened to repurpose an old General Motors Holden site because it was terribly worried about employment, and General Motors Holden had closed down.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
And so, it greenlit development there because the Pagewood Shopping Centre would create a lot of jobs.
Matthew BaileyGUEST
So, there's a few alterations like that.
DaveHOST
Yeah.
DaveHOST
Holdens have always been cool.
DaveHOST
I'll just say it.
DaveHOST
They've always been cool.
speaker_0HOST
While in March, the Australian National Airways airliner Southern Cloud crashed in the Snowy Mountains, with the crash being a partial reason for the end of the ANA.
speaker_0HOST
March also saw Holden brought by General Motors to become General Motors Holden.
speaker_0HOST
And April saw the first experimental airmail flights between England and Australia occur.
speaker_0HOST
In sport, Geelong won the VFL, South Sydney won the New South Wales Rugby League, White Nose won the Melbourne Cup, and Victoria won the Sheffield Shield.
VivekHOST
So next topic, we touched on...
VivekHOST
AI a little bit, but we have some news coming out of General Motors, which is the parent company of former Holden and has a presence in Australia through Cadillac or the General Motors special vehicles, which sells the Chevrolet Corvette, that they're actually using AI to halve the time it takes to develop a new car.
VivekHOST
So Samiv, I think for me, the more interesting part of this story is that in terms of how they're actually using AI, they're using it to, I think with aerodynamics in particular, so they can sort of simulate the drag coefficient of a car very virtually.
VivekHOST
They can use AI to sort of optimize the engineering of a car in that respect.
Gene TunnyHOST
Then I went back to uni in 1982 and finished a law degree and then in 1983 Hawke got in.
Gene TunnyHOST
And so I started working for John Button and the government had got in with a classic opposition's promise, which is General Motors Holden had sacked 14,000 workers, Ford was sacking people, and the Labor policy was that this was a disgrace, it was all the government's fault, and we would review it and fix it up.
Gene TunnyHOST
So no one had any idea what to do.
Gene TunnyHOST
And I was given this job and it was completely fascinating.
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