Stephen Koukoulas
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2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay.
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That's the point we're trying to reach.
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And again, the governor made that point very clear in her uh press conference after the on-hold decision last week.
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Yeah, productivity we know has been bad for a decade.
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There's not as big an acknowledgement that I would like to see on how difficult it is to measure productivity, which may be sort of overeating this issue of, oh, we're we're bad at productivity in Australia.
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Well, uh how do you measure the
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Productivity of a firefighter or the productivity of the productivity commission or the productivity of
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Productivity.
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A footballer or a cricketer, you know, th yeah they're uh frankly, and there's lots of work done this, they're impossible to measure.
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And as we're moving to a services based economy over the last few decades, which is healthcare, how do you measure the productivity of a nurse or a doctor?
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Seeing more patients?
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Well
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Not if it means they're not giving very good service.
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And a teacher, do we want classrooms of fifty children as opposed to twenty five or whatever the case may be?
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No.
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Oh, I I don't think we do.
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That said, we would still want productivity measures to increase because we can measure productivity in building, manufacturing, agriculture.
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Yes, they're very easy to measure in those sorts of parts of the economy.
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And even in those areas they've been pretty dismal.
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