The Importance of Listening to the Bean Counters

Utopia on the ABC is a comedy about a government department, the nation building authority. It shows how big projects are derailed by constant shifts in priorities and self-interest. And it's always about how things will look and sound rather than the reality of implementing. You've got to look beyond the numbers of vision time each year. If we'd listened to the bean counters, we never would have built the snowy Victoria. No one wants to host the Olympics anymore either right? Like, this stuff has become so expensive. The stakes have gotten so high. I think the tide is turning on the desire to spend money on that stuff. So if you push ahead with this, because you promise

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