Oliver Hartwich
speaker
270 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Aug
Oliver Hartwich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think this is one step towards fixing it, but we're dealing with a massive problem that has actually grown over decades.
So I think a single law change will not have an immediate effect, but I think it's good to send a clear signal to the public service what the government really expects of it.
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Good morning, Mike.
Overall, are we winning or not?
We're both.
I mean, on some measures, we're improving dramatically.
On other measures, we're still lagging the world behind.
If you look at road deaths, you mentioned we had more than 800 fatalities on our roads in the 1970s.
That's down to under 300, still too many I think, but it's a success story nevertheless because we've got way more traffic and way more people.
Infant mortality has equally collapsed.
We now have also better connectivity.
We have more mobile phone connections than we have people in this country.
So some things are improving all the time.
On other measures, of course, housing affordability, for example, but also productivity.
It's a different story.
I think it's the latter.
I think we're going along with everybody else because we know we have better nutrition these days.
We have better medical care.
We have better pharmaceuticals available.
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