Konrad Benjamin
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152 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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Politicians, people in front of me, going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for.
I've got a list of politicians who are still to this day, who were resource ministers, gas lobbyists.
I'm not anti-gas.
I'm pro getting paid what we're owed.
This is capitalism 101.
If we own the resource and it's ours, you pay us what you owe us.
We're about to hear that the global economy is going through a shock and we have to tighten our belts because something that happened overseas is making everything more expensive for us and we're about to be told that we can't afford anything.
Except when we look at what we are as a nation, lots of resources that we all collectively own, we know it not to be true.
I think politicians ignore just how much we're paying attention to this at their own peril.
Well, I guess there's a few stages to it.
Stage one is how I sort of got into making political content online.
I was standing in front of a class of year 10 students a few years ago talking about the topic of externalities and how impacts of business decisions can impact other people outside of that transaction.
And I was flicking through the textbook and there were rankings online.
of how Australia's going on indexes of everything, clean air, clean water, women in the workforce, press freedom, you name it.
And one student asked me after we reviewed everyone's results, he said, sir, does the government know that we're going backwards and everything?
Why don't they just fix it?
And it's at that moment where I kind of went home, being like, what do you want me to do?
So I went and emailed my local MP member and was like...
What do you want me to tell them?
Because if I'm going to be honest with them, I'm going to say the system isn't broken.
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