When The Government Asks For An Independent Consultation | Utopia
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Tony and the team work to somehow justify a cross-city tunnelling project that all experts agree is not viable. Angered by the incompetence of an employee, Nat attempts to fire her. Amy becomes the barista of the office.
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Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.
Starring Rob Sitch, Celia Pacquola, Dave Lawson, Kitty Flanagan, Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann, Luke McGregor, Dilruk Jayasinha, Nina Oyama.
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COMPLETELY accurate for the sickness of politically connected consultancy grift machine. Most with revolving-door senior ex-pollies greasing the corruption.
Starts with P and ends with C. ... Actually, it is 90% of the large 'consulting' firms. The enablers within the APS and the ministers that perpetuate this farce entrench these wasteful, damaging practices.
Leeches, the lot of them.
But no it’s Tom the labourer’s need for an overtime loading that is driving up the cost of projects here. /s
You should see how much the Trudeau government in canada has spent. Such corruption
That lean forward moment was beautifully organised. Whoever directed this knows actions are worth more than script
A great example of 'Show don't tell.'
And then the lean back after! They knew what the result of the investigation would be.
Spot on!!
@@zingzangspillip1and again Spot on.
I kid you not. I worked for a company that paid PWC to re write a 800 page policy document. They charged 600k and all they did was change punctuation and sentence structures. They did not get paid.
Consultants are corporate leeches. They don't know anything and they don't do anything and they charge you out the arse for it.
The show should be over for this sort of thing with GPT.
@@originalmianos I hope that's a normative and not a predictive 'should'.
Government will continue to pay Big 4 the same or more for worthless junk and Big 4 will widen profit margins by getting AI to do nothing of value (instead of paying a grad $70k a year to do the same).
Why would you need PWC to rewrite a policy document? Surely there would be someone on staff who could do it?
@@daleviker5884😂 depends on whether or not you need to appease a regulator by taking on their recommendation of engaging a third party to do it.
At which point they basically write the policy solely using your input anyway then charge you for it🤦
sort of a spiritual successor to "yes, prime minister"
Not a strong set of characters though
no, not at all. This Aussie business is light years ahead, and is above and beyond across the board.
How on earth do you guys keep predicting the future. You’re absolutely amazing!
Because the future is just the past with a different coloured tie.
@@useyourbrain5261 😂 that's a good one. Hope you don't mind if I borrow that one.?
@@davespanksalot8413 haha. Go for it 👍
It’s less about the future. It’s life under the LNP.
They didn't predict the future. They just showed what was happening in government.
This applies to any corporation where there are vested interests in getting a particular outcome.
A bit different in that the ACTUAL potential profitability of it will be something central to the decision, whereas with government there is less of this kind of "accountability"
I can't tell you how happy I am Utopia is returning. It gives me a reason to keep living!
Never initiate a review fir which you don't already know the result.
Absolutely love the impeccable timing between Rob and Neil. Their work in The Hollowmen was outstanding entertainment ❤️👍✨
"I thought these planning instructors were impartial." "So they are - railway trains are impartial, too, but if you lay down the lines for them, that's the way they go." - Yes Minister, "The Middle-Class Rip-off"
*planning instructors
@@edpatel6929?
I've seen this movie (in real life) more times than I can count on two hands. Smart money knows that they conclude something other than what the government wants to conclude, at their own peril. Just ask the bloke who prepared the initial heritage assessment of the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, whose contract was ended after he'd delivered the draft of his report to the government, but before they received the final version of it. (Spoiler you can probably guess: It concluded that the parts of the building the government wanted to tear down to put up something that looks like a 1970s classroom building from America, had heritage value and should be preserved.) They actually replaced his firm with another that concluded (surprise) that the parts the government wanted to tear down had no heritage value.
Doctor shopping on a bigger scale ;)
You should try watching Yes Minister
The gravy train never stops when you're corrupt.
I love how much better my job seems after watching these.
‘No nothing now’ 😂😂
Haha I love how they all lean forward 😅 this show is so on point 😂
Was this PWC running out to tell their clients about the new government initiative and how to rort it?
Laughing already. The leaning in on ' secret'. can't wait!!
I work as an independent consultant, the portrayal is bang-on.. to the point that i'm embarrassed to admit it..
I met Neil Melville (Ken) when he was doing research for playing a brass musician in A Heartbeat Away. Great sense of humour and always the twinkle in the eye 👍
Brilliant.
Loved it when the entire gravy train all leaned forward.
Wow….I wish the Kick-off meetings I have to attend could be as short as this one….🤣
Whoever writes this stuff has worked in government this is documentary not comedy.
It's not so much that this is an issue, its endemic to our species. We used to be tribal gatherers; we don't have the selection pressures or history to consistently care about accurate 3rd party anything. The fact we have done THIS well as a species is a testament to our ingenuity and ability to adapt to our terrible shortcomings. I don't think it is sustainable, long term, but it's truly remarkable how far we came.
Well said, the main advantage of humans is :"Ability to adapt to our outrageous shortcomings "
Define long-term
@@steelbear2063 there's a concept called the great filter. the argument goes that we should have seen by now countless other civilizations out there in space with visible technology that surpasses our own. Why haven't we seen any? Is life so hard to make or is life so often geared towards its own self destructions before they reach beyond the bounds of their home planet?
We don't technically know the answer to this, but you could infer that issues like climate change, rampant diseases that the majority of the species it affects balks at addressing properly due to it inconveniencing their lives, etc suggest that it is most likely the latter reason, not the former.
Looking forward to the return.Funny and frustrating at the same time.
The only thing this misses is that the "quants" - the ones who actually do the work - would be much younger. In fact graduates fresh from uni. Experience is very expensive, and you cannot make obscene profits from an expert consultancy if you hire actual experts.
Let the number crunchers work their MAGIC.......
I think you’ve made our task very clear
They look old for Consultants.... most Partners are retired off by mid-50's and the consultants in their 20's and 30's, at least these guys look like they have life experience.
Bahahahahhahahahah how that went from zero to 100% go go go in 3 seconds
just true; apart from rob's acting prowess; i really like the chief negotiator. I remember him from Hollowmen. Good Actor that man.
Consultants are a blight on society.
Why? They are not the problem. The problem is that governments never want to take responsibility for decisions, so they hire consultants to give them the answer they want, then if anything goes wrong the government can say "don't blame us, we acted on the advice of third party experts". The joke in this episode was on Tony for being so naive as to think otherwise.
@@daleviker5884
If somebody hires as assassin then both are to blame for murder. Same with governments who hire yes-men and the yes-men for only saying yes
"is the blue one for anyone in particular?". Boss keeps the blue one and removes the tab to hide a potential special message inside.
the only thing they need to know is weather the govt wants to move foward or not and they will give the result of the consultation acordingly.
Yep. Engines of confirmation bias.
My favorite part about these clips is honestly the comments. So many people think they are geniuses surrounded by mediocrity.
Hi, @PwC
So on the money
Auditors seem be just as " independent"
Classic stuff. And sadly so, so, true.
Ha. I've had numerous experiences with the big 4 and they are not much more that parasitic grifters with no subject matter experience.
@runawaysailing2032 That's not what their glossy brochures and Hollywood quality websites say 😉
As much as I’d like to watch the news series…I just can’t. At least not without enough downers in me to kill a very fast train..
is this just the aussie yes minister?
That was 'The Hollowmen' done by the same group, but this is certainly on the same level
hilarious will watch
Does the fact that Tony doesn't know Ken mean that HollowMen isn't canon to the "Utopia cinematic universe" xD
Morrison spent 20 billion in his last yr for consultants ??
So do all governments. Stop making this partisan.
Definitely not how it’s done in Queensland /s
PWC
Deloitte
everyone on the street is a general consultant.
Is there a way to watch this show in India
How do they get it so right...
In other words, bill the astronomical amounts, they will just pay all our invoices and we will give it a 50/50 recommendation, another day of doing business for a government department.
PWC model.....
Consulting is a scam
That will be $100,000 please
For what? Some coffee?
Clearly you don't have much experience in this. $100k is peanuts for work like this.
Pee WC tax evasion special task for ce play both ends against the taxpayers in the middle ,
The irony here is this show is on the ABC....
English isn't my first language could someone explain this to me ? Cuz I've completely missed the point.
basically govt is trying to build a project, lets say a highway for lets say 10 billion dollars. but you know that govt always goes over budget, so to improve how govt functions, there might be a congress resolution that before govt can start any project, they should get independent resolution to first make sure that independent experts that govt doesn't control assess the viability of the project
but in reality, govt is a client to the consultancy that is tasked to be the independent experts. and consultancies don't want to disappoint clients, they really don't care about the customers, they care about clients. so the will tweak the fuck of numbers so that it looks very legitimate to conclude that project is 100% viable
same stuff happens in corporate sector as well, lets say a client wants to build a product and the consultancy client hired says the customers don't care about their product, the client will imediately fire that consultancy and get another one who says it can.
@@eightnoteight thanks ChatGPT
ROFLMAO