Steve Baxter

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1,374 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2 Aug

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We're lazy.

We go for the best thing we get the return from, right?

Yeah.

Then there's ESG.

Sorry, I don't know if you like to swear here, but it's a societal pox, ESG, where it's just environmental social governance.

And for whatever reason, defense has been put in the naughty box with respect to that.

And 83% of investment funds in Australia are linked to the superannuation industry and they default rule that investing.

Oh, really?

Oh, yeah.

Very much so.

So the big super funds, the big industry funds, et cetera, they-

The tarnish is coming off.

We're starting to talk to a few of the operators in there, and they're wanting to discover more, I suppose.

Then you get the really cheap shot answers, a bit like, oh, we wouldn't fund the warship, but we'd fund the dock you could tie the warship to.

That's bizarre.

Excuse me.

So, look, in the US and Europe, it changed in a heartbeat.

One thing happened.

Vladimir drove his tanks into Ukraine and everyone got over ESG the next day, to be honest.

So it's a little bit more existential over there.

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