James Thompson

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987 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · AI, AGMs, and Overworked Directors · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

We need to lean into this AI boom in a sort of more sustained and sustainable way.

And I think Albanese is right and Lee is right.

We do need to find ways to sort of

get the most out of this boom, not just make it a construction boom.

Because while it's the biggest investment boom since the mining boom, it's very different.

And Lee's hit upon that.

There's a lot fewer jobs involved, a lot of the equipment's from overseas, and a lot of the profits are going to flow overseas.

So it is going to be really tricky.

But I think you sort of look at the Australian economy –

And you do think, can we afford not to be part of this AI boom?

Like, we don't exactly have a lot of other strengths to rely on at the moment.

Yeah, so I think it's good Albanese sort of made this a priority.

We need to figure out the right path through it.

Do we need a separation of audit and consulting?

Not sure we need to go that far.

We need to do something, though.

I mean, the government's had...

irritates me here is the government's had, after the PwC scandal, options to tighten the regulations around these businesses.

They've had them on the books or under consideration for like three years and nothing has happened.

It's very strange given you've got Labor Senator Deb O'Neill has done such a great job really campaigning or crusading on this.

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