Ian Verrender
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3,682 appearances
32 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3d ago
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So it's not an impossible task, but it is very difficult.
Now, Australians have demonstrated
over the past 20 to 30 years that they uh that they demand uh a lot of services from from our governments uh and they're not prepared to really pay for it.
And that is where the problem lies at the moment.
So in many ways, looking at where we're going to be in 40 years from now, it's pretty illuminating about what the problem is going to be.
And it just really gets down to can we fix it.
Look, it does seem unrealistic to uh to try and
Jack up the productivity rate to such a level, 1.2%, particularly given the trend that you see with our productivity in Australia.
It's been declining and uh in in recent, more recent times it's actually gone into negative territory.
So bouncing back from that, well, that's going to be a real challenge.
And of course, what do you have to do to improve your productivity?
Well, what it gets down to is investment in
In infrastructure and investment in technology that makes your workers more productive.
You know, I mean, we've we've spoken about this before, Carrington.
I mean, you know, if if I said to you, hey, do you want to go and dig up the uh the Melbourne cricket ground and here's a shovel?
Well, you'd probably come back in about eight months or a year's time and say, finished.
But if you had a big uh a big tractor that uh you know, one of those ones Kerry Stokes owns, uh, you
Go and do it in a couple of hours.
And that's a productivity gain.
Because you've got better equipment, better technology that you're in command of, you can achieve a much higher rate of productivity.
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