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Tony and the team work to somehow justify a cross-city tunnelling project that all experts agree is not viable. Angered by the incompetence of an employee, Nat attempts to fire her. Amy becomes the barista of the office.
Season 2 Episode 7: Reporting For Duty
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Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.
Starring Rob Sitch, Celia Pacquola, Dave Lawson, Kitty Flanagan, Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann, Luke McGregor, Dilruk Jayasinha, Nina Oyama.
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COMPLETELY accurate for the sickness of politically connected consultancy grift machine. Most with revolving-door senior ex-pollies greasing the corruption.
Starts with P and ends with C. … Actually, it is 90% of the large ‘consulting’ firms. The enablers within the APS and the ministers that perpetuate this farce entrench these wasteful, damaging practices.
Leeches, the lot of them.
But no it’s Tom the labourer’s need for an overtime loading that is driving up the cost of projects here. /s
You should see how much the Trudeau government in canada has spent. Such corruption
How on earth do you guys keep predicting the future. You’re absolutely amazing!
Because the future is just the past with a different coloured tie.
@@useyourbrain5261 😂 that’s a good one. Hope you don’t mind if I borrow that one.?
@@davespanksalot8413 haha. Go for it 👍
It’s less about the future. It’s life under the LNP.
They didn’t predict the future. They just showed what was happening in government.
This applies to any corporation where there are vested interests in getting a particular outcome.
A bit different in that the ACTUAL potential profitability of it will be something central to the decision, whereas with government there is less of this kind of “accountability”
I can’t tell you how happy I am Utopia is returning. It gives me a reason to keep living!
I kid you not. I worked for a company that paid PWC to re write a 800 page policy document. They charged 600k and all they did was change punctuation and sentence structures. They did not get paid.
Consultants are corporate leeches. They don’t know anything and they don’t do anything and they charge you out the arse for it.
The show should be over for this sort of thing with GPT.
@@originalmianos I hope that’s a normative and not a predictive ‘should’.
Government will continue to pay Big 4 the same or more for worthless junk and Big 4 will widen profit margins by getting AI to do nothing of value (instead of paying a grad $70k a year to do the same).
Why would you need PWC to rewrite a policy document? Surely there would be someone on staff who could do it?
@@daleviker5884😂 depends on whether or not you need to appease a regulator by taking on their recommendation of engaging a third party to do it.
At which point they basically write the policy solely using your input anyway then charge you for it🤦
That lean forward moment was beautifully organised. Whoever directed this knows actions are worth more than script
A great example of ‘Show don’t tell.’
And then the lean back after! They knew what the result of the investigation would be.
Spot on!!
@@zingzangspillip1and again Spot on.
Was this PWC running out to tell their clients about the new government initiative and how to rort it?
Never initiate a review fir which you don’t already know the result.
The gravy train never stops when you’re corrupt.
‘No nothing now’ 😂😂
A new season of Utopia is coming Wednesday 7 June 8pm to ABC TV + iview! ☕
Absolutely love the impeccable timing between Rob and Neil. Their work in The Hollowmen was outstanding entertainment ❤️👍✨
Laughing already. The leaning in on ‘ secret’. can’t wait!!
I’ve seen this movie (in real life) more times than I can count on two hands. Smart money knows that they conclude something other than what the government wants to conclude, at their own peril. Just ask the bloke who prepared the initial heritage assessment of the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, whose contract was ended after he’d delivered the draft of his report to the government, but before they received the final version of it. (Spoiler you can probably guess: It concluded that the parts of the building the government wanted to tear down to put up something that looks like a 1970s classroom building from America, had heritage value and should be preserved.) They actually replaced his firm with another that concluded (surprise) that the parts the government wanted to tear down had no heritage value.
Doctor shopping on a bigger scale 😉
You should try watching Yes Minister
I love how much better my job seems after watching these.
sort of a spiritual successor to “yes, prime minister”
Not a strong set of characters though
no, not at all. This Aussie business is light years ahead, and is above and beyond across the board.
I work as an independent consultant, the portrayal is bang-on.. to the point that i’m embarrassed to admit it..
Haha I love how they all lean forward 😅 this show is so on point 😂
Brilliant.
Loved it when the entire gravy train all leaned forward.
“I thought these planning instructors were impartial.” “So they are – railway trains are impartial, too, but if you lay down the lines for them, that’s the way they go.” – Yes Minister, “The Middle-Class Rip-off”
*planning instructors
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