Michael Thompson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That'll be the first of its kind for the ASX.
And it's really because...
Space is no longer just the domain of governments, but it's also open to commercial companies that are doing everything from launching rockets and building satellite networks and just broadly mapping the Earth from orbit.
Everything involves space these days.
I have, yes.
Did you like it?
I enjoyed the movie.
I think because I had read the book, so I knew what I was expecting.
I know that you differed slightly, right?
Look, I'll tell you what, Sean, I actually picked this about three years ago, remember, and I did it on the weekend edition when I declared that, I mean, admittedly, I think I said 2024 was going to be the year that we start caring more about what's in the sky and looking up to the heavens.
But I think that was also because it'd been a spate of space junk incidents.
You do this every year, though.
You say that every year.
It's actually the way you do it.
You make a whole lot of pronouncements.
And then if one of them just happens to come true, you say, look, Nostradamus over here got one right.
Now, after years of decline, Sean, the use of cash in the economy somehow reversed with around 15% of payments now made using notes and coins and 50% of Australians using cash as
in a typical week.
I find that amazing.
Older Australians and lower income households tend to use cash more, but really representatives of all age groups pay with it.