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Speaker 1: So now a couple of things interested me with the

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Speaker 1: government back to work edict yesterday. One we need a

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Speaker 1: back to work edict and the fact we didn't have

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Speaker 1: one till now, And two, not surprisingly sadly, the admission

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Speaker 1: no one knows what the hell's going on, Who is where?

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Speaker 1: What percentage of time people aren't there, are there when

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Speaker 1: they are, or aren't compared with any other piece of

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Speaker 1: the public service. What are mickey mouse shambles. The Australians

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Speaker 1: have crunched the numbers the savings. Have told you this

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Speaker 1: the other day. The savings for individuals in terms of

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Speaker 1: money not spent commuting is in the tens of billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars per year per state. They of course have

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Speaker 1: had return to work notices for a while now, although

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Speaker 1: I knowe New South Wales only did their public workers

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back. Saving money by not dealing

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Speaker 1: with traffic is probably an upside to working at home, right,

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Speaker 1: And I've always thought that this business of teamwork and

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Speaker 1: camaraderie is a bit overstated, and if not overstated, it

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Speaker 1: certainly hard to prove. You can prove what you save

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Speaker 1: not going to work, a bit harder to show what

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Speaker 1: outworkings have been achieved by all hanging around the kitchen together.

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Speaker 1: The other odd thing has been my naivety. I honestly

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Speaker 1: thought we had it sorted ages ago. I assume I

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Speaker 1: assumed we had a policy in place. Obviously Wellington's a mess.

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Speaker 1: But working from home is only part of the equation.

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Speaker 1: I mean the clowns who run the city are more responsible, surely,

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Speaker 1: with their determination to destroy any signs of livability. And also,

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Speaker 1: don't forget, for every coffee that isn't brought in Lampton Key,

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Speaker 1: this one being purchased in places like Eastbourne. Anyway, the

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Speaker 1: skybing's over another of these lenient take the mickey out

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Speaker 1: of the COVID year's ideas has been brought to an end,

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Speaker 1: or will be shortly. But you've got to wonder about

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Speaker 1: the government, don't you. All the privates had this sorted

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Speaker 1: ages ago. But good old dumpty doo Wellington, no policy,

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Speaker 1: no decisions. Everyone's at home for a good long weekend,

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Speaker 1: all pretending its business as usual. Well, the jig is

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Speaker 1: up and on balance, as hard as a park might

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Speaker 1: be defined or a bus to catch. I think we

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Speaker 1: are better off in general at work than at home.

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