Why Is The Airport Rail Link Over Budget? | Utopia

[@workingdogproductions]

Watch the latest episodes of Utopia, 8pm Wednesdays on ABC TV + iview✈ Missed it? Catch encore screenings Friday 8:30pm!

[@aussieintexas61]

can you put episodes on youtube for overseas aussies please.

[@TPRM1]

Any time the budget for a major project is announced, double it. Same with the time (they claim) it will take. Then it might actually come in under (double the) budget. They give the cost (and time) that they think will get approved, then rely on the sunk-cost fallacy to get you to provide the extra cash once it has started. And it works. When have you ever heard of a major project being cancelled halfway-through because it was running over-budget?

[@brendanwaters9646]

Can you get this in the UK anywhere? Thanks!

[@wolfie54321]

"Inflation is one and a half percent" - Ahhh, the good ol' days.

[@GG-hi5if]

And tbf a bargain if they signed this in 2019 and was a multiyear project.

[@davidlamb1107]

@@GG-hi5if 1.5% times 10 years would be 16%, not 300%.

[@nationstatepoliticalscience]

Correct 400% as in over thr tendered amoint ​@@davidlamb1107

[@LM-xw7ii]

The great irony, of course, is that costs would get a lot more competitive if the government actually WAS willing to cancel a project

[@kingleech16]

But that would be “admitting defeat” and would get you crucified, and we can’t have that. Almost as bad as taking responsibility for something!

[@g-forcemapping8454]

Ah yes the episode with the old guy who everyone including Nat and Tony liked. He almost fixed this entire issue and made things better only for the budget to cut the second start program.

[@Ben-ee6hr]

This was genuinely the episode that made me that saddest. The old employee comes in and comes up with fixable solution based on years of experience and it gets tossed out anyway.

[@g-forcemapping8454]

@@Ben-ee6hr exactly before this I was able to put up with most of the shit the show through at me. However, after seeing Nat just light up at him calling her sweetie and Tony genuinely feel hopeful and upbeat about his solution I was so happy...until I am pretty sure Jim and Rhonda teamed up and convinced the minister to cut the second start program and continued to support the third party contractors. I mean it made me depressed for days and I also came to like the old guy. :(

[@giridharbg]

Not sure why I feel physical pain every time I watch Utopia!! :(

[@jeremythomas2865]

Thanks Working Dog. I am loving these shorts on KZbin. I’m finding can’t even sit through one episode due to the frustrations the characters go through. Maybe it’s bringing up some undiagnosed PTSD from previous workplaces I’ve worked in. Haha Byway, as many have said over the years, Utopia, Hollowmen, etc, some of the best writing out there.

[@garethwhite8770]

Check out frontline. Hilarious and surprisingly still accurate.

[@kc4699]

every time i see a generally very worthy community project ad/initiative on social media that also has the words "Building Authority" attached to it, i'm like, YEAH NAH 😆😭 thanks, Utopia!

[@midgetwars1]

The thing is though, the building authority is competent. It's the pollies that constantly stuff things up in Utopia and probably IRL too.

[@rexlongfellow]

Focus group applause💀

[@rolly4x4]

Tony has the patience of a saint 😂

[@gasgaslex_photos]

The only thing worth watching on Aussie TV are the D-Generation alumni. All hail Rob Sitch

[@presntnow]

Thanks Working Dog Productions Loving the Comedy Shows! ❤

[@tnargs57]

This show *must* be a potential hit internationally. Is it getting interest?

[@jbdawinna]

Can I borrow your I player login? I need to watch it 😂

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

I mean, I can imagine people loving it but Australians are bizarrely bad at exporting their great stuff

[@Hereford1642]

@@Dmitrisnikioff Can't even get it together to pirate bay it. So frustrating.

[@peterjonas1545]

Costs blow-outs and major engineering problems will likely prevent that.

[@JustFixItGoldCoast]

My favorite show.....right up there with Juice Media govt ads

[@garionhall]

"The logo's been done" - best line

[@yfelwulf]

Another great Doco if only 60 minutes was this honest.

[@thedoble]

You try toughing it out on site here! ... See you Monday! Nah, RDO, see you Tuesday! *drives off in a new land rover towing a boat*

[@michaelhobson585]

This is half of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

Once the big 4 accounting agencies know if you want a high or low cost estimate, they will adjust accordingly, as long as it is done " in confidence" so they can not be held accountable, sigh.

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

Costing written on water.

[@jimstanborough825]

Now I know why Kiwi construction costs are so high!

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

It's quite distressing, really, how inept our governments are

[@nicholassmith7984]

That's the privatisation and outsourcing, not to mention the demands of clueless ministers. Government departments either can't or won't retain expertise, so they essentially become administration only.

[@yfelwulf]

These are documentary not comedy. Politicians must see these and cringe.

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

@@yfelwulf we do!

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

Not at all, their mates get management fees as a percentage of cost, so costs up, fees up, very tasty.

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

It's all about the votes, paying the interest is a opposition problem.

[@LukeMorphett]

The 1.5% inflation line hasn't aged well.

[@tamarabell1265]

In-house barista

[@fade2blak1]

Turns out they got the inflation bit right

[@AC-bi3bz]

The whole series of videos is just brilliant ❤… kudos to you! I am in Germany and indeed, it should be labeled as a documentary not comedy 😂

[@tokyodove]

Love the show but I can't finish an episode, it's more infuriating then funny after a certain point.

[@antonbrum5492]

Totally correct, describing the West gate tunnel project.

[@grandpaears8746]

Youse guys are great !!!

[@sarcasmo57]

This is real.

[@Giovanni-Learning-and-Stuff]

Oh goodness... Sarcasmo we meet again

[@sarcasmo57]

@@Giovanni-Learning-and-Stuff Cyber-stalker! Hey just 2 more days Gio.

[@davoc3403]

I used to laugh at this show, then I got a job working with a goverment department and realised this is actually a documentary

[@MrWhositMagig]

"Where do you drink??" LOL

[@yfaitube]

Less than 10% variance is actually pretty good 😂

[@hastekulvaati9681]

They were spot on with inflation contingency in the budgets

[@dustinwood5167]

I love how everyone who watches Utopia thinks they are the tortured genius, forced to deal with the mediocrity that is government red tape.

[@jdhart111]

gold!!!! thank you!!

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

I can't keep track now .Was it the airport or the government who wants the end station below ground?

[@pauldraper1736]

Competition is good.

[@byronblake8697]

It's a round of drinks. I think you've got an old draft.

[@defenstrator4660]

I don’t get it. Why are all these Canadians talking with Australian accents? This is surely a documentary of how our own government functions

[@FreeSenpai]

ohhh, I thought it were Americans talking like Australians, Tis cultural appropriation you see....

[@markdoldon8852]

Thats the point. Like watching "Yes minister", its a representation of ALL large organizations.

[@x13years]

like Dilbert for the modern times

[@laok]

its werd looking at this when south Australia spent 15B on a single road no one gives a hoot

[@gondwanatravels8834]

😢😢😢taxpayers

[@leonkernan]

0:40 that didn't age well..

[@maximo6059]

*Promosm*

[@bert23337]

If these are supposed to be public servants why are they wearing ties and why don't they have a rainbow coloured ribbon around their necks?

[@Luca-sl9ot]

Maybe because what your right wing echo chamber tells you isn’t actually true

[@daleviker5884]

@@Luca-sl9ot Maybe you should step out of your left wing echo chamber into the real world? I recently went to a meeting with Council officers in a particular suburb of Melbourne, and the first thing when we sat down was they asked me what my pronouns were ffs.