Stephen Mayne
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It's a gerrymander.
He's got 85% of the votes.
It's not one vote, one value.
He's unhinged.
It's bleeding cash and they're trying to get a billion dollars out of Australians.
I mean, I'm really upset by it.
And, you know, SpaceX spent $150 million buying Cybertrucks, propping up his Cybertrucks business the other week.
And SpaceX has got $29 billion of debt to start with.
Starlink's a great business, but the rest of it's just bleeding cash and blue sky.
Yeah, so Matt has written in.
Now, Matt runs a business called Tumarama Music and our chief producer, Greg, is a big fan of their great service.
And Matt has gone in quite a detailed question, basically complaining about the latest Australia Post article.
price increases and, you know, there's fuel levy costs jacking up the prices, another 5% increase from July 1 on the average parcel post.
And he's saying this is hurting businesses all over the country.
Like he sends out, you know, microphones and all sorts of gear by post.
People order online and he's got to post it out.
And I think he's making a really good point that the government with the monopoly with Australia Post should not be stoking inflation with above inflation increases in basic utilities that are so important for the operations of the economy such as Australia Post.
But then I had a look at the Australia Post annual report, Alan.
$9.5 billion of revenue and last year they only made $19 million in profit.
So they're not gouging and making huge profits.