Holden

As Holden supercars take to the Bathurst 1000 start line for the final time, this October marks five years since the last locally made Commodore rolled off ...

"It's good to be playing a part of the journey of the site really, like many that have been here before." When asked what the fifth anniversary of the shutdown meant to him, Mr Somers said it was "good to see" the site alive. "There's a lot of them coming through from the defence industry, for example, looking for space, looking for opportunity here." There's a lot of them working here in the various businesses," he said. "There's lots of the Holden employees that come in and out. "For some, the closure was a catalyst for them to approach a new job or a new industry they might otherwise never have engaged with," she said.