James Thompson
speaker
987 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Everyone's got to recognize that things happen over the course of a building project and that risk needs to be shared.
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So the remarkable thing to me, Kai, is that
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This has been obvious for a long time.
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No one seems to have ever done much about it.
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No.
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The sort of silliness continues.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, I think there's swings and roundabouts.
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The certainty of fixed price contracting is important.
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So you can understand why that, you know.
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Your builder, I'm sure, was completely scrupulous.
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You could understand there'd be situations where costs suddenly become inflated in a cost-plus world, but there's got to be a happy hunting ground.
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And I'm James Thompson, Senior Chanticleer Columnist at the Australian Financial Review.
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And I'm James Thompson, senior Chanticleer columnist at the Australian Financial Review.
Oh, well, look, I guess I have.
I think it's been...
Wow, it's had a bit of everything, hasn't it?
It's gone on for a long time, but they extended the number of countries involved from 32 to 48.
I must admit, I thought at the start of the tournament, oh, it's going to drag a bit.
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