Interviews Archive

Coronavirus: What is happen with public transport around the world for essential trips
6 April 2020
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In regard to the Corona virus, we must be totally committed to limiting travel and washing hands and so on. But some people will still have to travel. Is there still a role for public transport? And if so, what are or should the service providers be doing? Yale Wong is from the Institute of

Dean Oliver: Artist; Rally driver: Raconteur; Holden Owner
1 March 2020
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The resident artist of the motoring radio program Overdrive, Dean Oliver, comes from a family that has had its passion for Holden cars. We chatted about those early years and Dean as a young man with a craving for cars but not the financial responsibility that some would have liked. DB Dean, your family did

Is there a romance in driving old Holdens: Terry Thompson is a realist but loves them all the same
1 March 2020
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Terry Thompson is a director of the ARDC, and has a long history in many things to do with cars and motoring, including the New South Wales Road Safety Advisory Council and a whole pile of motoring clubs, including the 48 and FJ. Holden Owners Club. We chatted with him about the history. You can

For the love of a Holden Monaro: How the first car race telecast he saw set a lifetime passion
1 March 2020
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There is an old adage about motor racing. “Race on Sunday; Sell on Monday”. This was one of those passionate mantras that seem to motivate Holden and Ford during the glory years of the long-distance production car racing at Bathurst in the late 60s and most of the 70s. Holden kept at it for years

Owning Holdens and Racing an EH: Traffic Engineer Alan Finlay relives theirs and his glory days
23 February 2020
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DB: Alan Finlay is a great friend of the program and is a respected traffic engineer and transport planner. His family has had twelve Holdens over the years with a predominance in the early part, I believe. DB: Alan, I looked at your first six cars, the first five from an FJ to an EH

Prof Toby Walsh: Artificial Intelligence; it’s up to us to cope with this development
16 December 2019
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At the premiere of the movie Machine, which is a documentary film about artificial intelligence, one of the featured experts was Professor Toby Walsh. Professor Walsh is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence who has held research positions all over Europe and also in Australia, including the University of New South Wales. He was named