Donnacha O’Beachain

And that part to me, it set off the brain of like, you know, the children's hospital and other things that started out at 500 million and whether it's going to stay at that.

No.

That's what you're pushing for, though, isn't it?

I mean, I wasn't surprised.

I mean, you know, as long as humans have been around, they've tried to, you know, be acknowledged, be recognised, to participate in the public sphere.

Really, as I said, because it's just a manifestation of a trend in society.

I mean, I think we always kind of are suspicious of new technologies.

I mean, some would argue, I don't say I subscribe to it fully, that this is kind of the democratization of influence, that instead of having these filters or middle people who decide that you get a platform, you can just go out there.

And if enough people think you've got something to say, they will subscribe, they will follow, and there will be a snowball effect.

And that's a good thing.

The kind of potential criticism of that is that it's not

particularly well regulated and and therefore you can get people saying all sorts of nonsense and that can attract a lot of attention for the wrong reasons so but the whole celebrity culture and and you know being famous for the sake of being famous uh you know that's been there for a while i mean the thing the elephant in the room perhaps is the social media ban uh which australia has introduced which the uk now uh one of kirsten's last initiatives there's been talk about it here so whether they have access to social media in the in the coming years is is a question yeah