Stephen Mayne

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4,460 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Stephen Mayne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · Housing's Perfect Storm · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

So I'm saying, you know, thanks.

I'll just get the guardrails to protect it.

But, yeah.

look thanks for asking oscar and um you know i hope you're okay too mate so uh it's not it's quite fun being alone wolf you can uh you know agms it's all good fun emma says i'm planning some house renos regularly i see in the media stories of people who've just lost large sums of money the shonky builders and contractors who went bust traded whilst in solvents phoenix their company disappeared have no insurance etc can you provide me and your listeners some tips for

for doing our due diligence in these kind of situations.

Now, Alan, your column on Backler, it went into the iCert system.

Is that relevant here for Emma, the sort of the scoreboard on quality thing for builders?

And then for small builders, I think you've just got to ask to see the back catalogue and try and speak to previous clients.

Well, we went with the fellow member of the kindergarten committee whose dad was a builder and did a good job on the kitchen.

So we knew them, felt we could trust them.

So it is often a case of...

knowing who you're dealing with and just looking at their scoreboard.

But with all these headlines on Buck and everything else, it's not a lot of confidence.

I can understand why people like Emma are a little nervous.

Now, Pete from Mandurah.

It's a very short question.

Are we currently in a recession?

I notice consumer stocks have been punished, like West Farmers Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi.

Well, obviously, Pete, we're officially not in a recession, which is two quarters of negative GDP.

JB Hi-Fi shares, look, they floated at $1.

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