Jack Tame
speaker
255 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Jack Tame’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Oh, really?
Born and raised in Adelaide.
And both my mum and her auntie independently moved to New Zealand.
In fact, I would have actually been born in Australia, except that when my parents went travelling, like went on their OE, they finished backpacking through South America and they were like, where are we going to move, New Zealand or Australia?
And my dad was like very happy to live in Australia.
That's where they'd met.
They'd been living in Sydney together.
And then they looked at the different options for jobs and stuff.
And at the time, we were paying people to train to be teachers.
And so mum said, well, if we go back to New Zealand, I can go to Teachers College and we'll have a bit of money.
Yeah.
As opposed to in Australia where they didn't have that.
And that's the sole difference.
That's why I'm born here, not there.
Okay.
So that was the incentive back then.
I mean, there are smaller countries that do well.
But when you can just dig wealth out of the ground, it does make a big difference.
And I mean, we've had this kind of productivity problem for a long time now.
So our GDP per capita, like if you look at the kind of wealth creation per capita,
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