"Forget the idea that we don't make anything here anymore. Western Sydney alone employs 80,000 people in manufacturing, and if you're popping a vitamin tablet this morning, it almost certainly came out of a factory in Eastern Creek."

Adam Leto, CEO of the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue, joins the show to discuss their newly launched landmark discussion paper, Re-Tooling a Manufacturing Powerhouse: A Future Made in Greater Western Sydney. While the public often looks back on the 1970s and 80s car manufacturing declines with nostalgia, Leto reveals that the industrial heart of the West has quietly adapted, survived, and grown.