The sad thing is that ALL the Tony's are dead, resigned or retired - since 1990s. Now most of the bosses in the public service are Rhondas, and the rest are Jims.

@jefferyadc

2 ай бұрын

Sad how true this comment is

@riccardobater-james5396

2 ай бұрын

They had this same thing before the 90s people are forever the same

@theredking3070

2 ай бұрын

As a Rhonda I can confirm 😂

@lachlanrussell18

2 ай бұрын

my dad is in the top end of local gov and he's a total Tony. it's actually uncanny. even has the same hair

@Emperorvalse

2 ай бұрын

I was pushed into a new infrastructure monitoring team so Jim and Rhonda could be unleashed. The upshot, delays, budget increases and increased bureaucracy not delivering anything other than uninformative pretty reports that hide the truth.

I work for a nsw government agency and this show is so accurate that it's scary

@zandaroos553

2 ай бұрын

I do utilities & infrastructure economic consulting for the U.S. government and I don’t like that they outed us here.

@phunk8607

2 ай бұрын

Try Canberra… you would be shocked

@janemacintyre9801

2 ай бұрын

same in Qld ...

@dimsoneill

2 ай бұрын

Consultants, today's bottom feeders. Please tell us what you would like to hear so we can charge like the light brigade to tell you would you would like to hear. PwC official uniform should be clown wigs and oversized novelty shoes. Oh and an mini bike and a toot horn.

@zandaroos553

2 ай бұрын

@@dimsoneill i mean how else will I afford my Beacon Hill apartment and Equinox membership

Tony: Tasmania does not want a stadium AFL: QUICK, ANNOUNCE A TEAM

@wobblysauce

2 ай бұрын

money money... ahhh

@willow6228

2 ай бұрын

@@wobblysauce we haven't got any - the state is in debt upto the eyeballs

@iffracem

Ай бұрын

@@willow6228 Worst results in education, right up there as worst in housing, public transport is crap, people dying in the debacle that is hospital ramping, some districts have no doctors, at least one hospital also has no doctor on staff. And our wonderful premier asks the AFL if they'll be nice and at least use some lube, AFL says nope, your taxpayers tears will have to do.

@Adriaticus

Ай бұрын

​@@willow6228But hey, at least they(whoever holds office) will look good for the next elections.

The part where theyre talking about how every team is outsourced or a separate organisation has me shaking in anger and frustration I had to close the video

@lagrangewei

14 күн бұрын

Boeing did that too and we know how well that went...

@wakelamp

13 күн бұрын

My local council has outsourced nearly everything. They still have the same number of employees - they just do things that are more fun for staff and less measurable

The IT department really upped their game after the smartGov debacle

@philhahn

2 ай бұрын

Was that before or after the Census crash?

@shinjisan2015

Ай бұрын

they were so close with myGovSpace... just had to drop the space

@steelgear3876

Ай бұрын

Could be before, during and after.

@howard5992

22 күн бұрын

@@steelgear3876 see the final two slides...

i love the last clip with tony and the bigwigs. reminds me of jim hacker foiling sir humphrey on yes prime minister.

@hoilst265

2 ай бұрын

Reminded me of the bit where Jim and Humphrey teamed up as "Transport Supremo" to start the trial in the PM's own electorate and tear down a bunch of parks and pools...

@g-forcemapping8454

2 ай бұрын

@@hoilst265 Love that episode.

@650atash

2 ай бұрын

😊​@@hoilst265

@davespanksalot8413

2 ай бұрын

I just love that “who’s on board?” with an innocently inquiring look can be such a good burn 😂

The High Speed Train is my favourite election "promise". It appears in almost every federal election, only for the feasibility study to come by 19-36 months later to say it isn't cost effective.

@babokmorrison7561

Ай бұрын

Yep pretty much but idk I feel like they always look at doing it on massive scales instead of starting smaller and getting regional connectivity first and then expanding later on kinda like they have done it in the UK where they just upgraded existing track instead of building brand new stuff for bonkers money.

@MiG21aholic

Ай бұрын

​@@babokmorrison7561you better look up HS2 then 😉

@anthonypetniunas354

Ай бұрын

@@babokmorrison7561 100% agree. If they did a system between Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo, and made it work, then we could expand the concept. That was before Victoria was broke, of course.

@tobybrown1179

Ай бұрын

This is why we can’t afford anything kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmGisNKMka_ef5s.htmlsi=DZvpHD4p3hGn7o0x

@stephenTcartwright

21 күн бұрын

The Tories in the UK proposed one of these, and couldn't even build one from London to Liverpool!

Can’t help thinking about how hard it must have been to narrow the video down to just 10 minutes!

My uncle who worked for the Australian Government at the time, said of The Hollowmen (basically the precursor of this series) that it was a documentary. This is absolutely true of this series!

@shykorustotora

Ай бұрын

My mum worked in Parliament House back when I was little. She agrees, it's basically a documentary. That's exactly what it's like there

"They dont know what they want" "they live there" "thats not the point" Painfully sums up modern ceo's

This show is beyond brilliant, and that last scene was so well done! Just watching everyone’s reaction as Tony laid out his plan! 😂

@kazwilson425

2 ай бұрын

And the look!👀 on Rhonda's face when he does is beyond gold. Like, she knows what he's done.

I’ve literally been in a meeting when the door swung open and in came the admin girl with a facilities management person to measure space for a new desk. We all just sat there staring as they measured then walked out - all I could think of was Tony.

Australia's gift to the world of satire - as a former public servant, I can vouch for its accuracy and its brilliance

@geopolitix7770

14 күн бұрын

One of Australia's gifts. Lets not forget The Games or Clark and Dawe!

4:35 I love how her assumption that Ash would have 'lived experience' of her question is also racist lol

@bodybalanceU2

2 ай бұрын

Yes!!! that is why this show is so brilliant - this is reality

@midnight-matches

2 ай бұрын

Let’s dig deeper, respectfully. 😂😂

@pnutz_2

Ай бұрын

normally it's a problem of a well-intentioned, but ultimately flawed course where there's not enough space in the feedback form for the nuance you'd need to take it apart (see also the customer feedback at 3:00 that's designed to make people hang up so they never get negative feedback) but they go straight for the jugular in this lol

@FJaypewpew

Ай бұрын

@@pnutz_2it’s just using obvious otherism to claim compassion Truly non racist addresses like this wouldn’t call on anyone

@rachelcookie321

Ай бұрын

As someone who lives in another country than where I was born, I love when people ask me where I’m from. And I love asking everyone because I find it interesting to find out if they were born here or somewhere else and what their family origin is. There’s nothing wrong with that question in the first place lol.

This was the best show ever! Rob is killing it. Lots of love from Romania.

"i'm getting an icecream headache", I can recall hundreds of times I could've used that line 🤣

This is truly amazing. Well done "Working Dog". Holding a mirror up to current Australian Affairs....government, bureaucracy, private companies, beholden interests....and it doesn't paint a pretty picture!! Australia is "all froth and no cappuccino".

@marcbiff2192

2 ай бұрын

All of the Anglosphere is the same,anyone would think it was co-ordinated.

Can i check if they are Breathing...? Not Yet..

People that fall into the Rhonda category, should never be allowed into the building

@dimsoneill

2 ай бұрын

They are running the building mate. And surrounding themselves hiring like-minded sycophants so no-one is left to logically question their BS and make them look silly.

@shykorustotora

Ай бұрын

"I thought I banned her from the building.." - A line in one of the episodes

@franciscobizzaro

Ай бұрын

Rhonda's like monsoon frogs nowadays

@lior_shiboli

29 күн бұрын

Was hr in the building again?​@shykorustotora

If you're looking for something similar to this, there's a british show called "The Thick of it" with a similar vibe

@melsy7720

Ай бұрын

Loved that show too! 😂😂

@_Titanium_

21 күн бұрын

Or you could watch the original which inspired it all: "Yes minister"

You left the best bit to the last!

I would suggest this as part of mandatory school curriculum! At least we would be all less naive and benefit from the amazing healing properties of laughter 🤭

The world wide professional managerial class desperately needs psilocybin mushroom therapy.

@dimsoneill

2 ай бұрын

This is true. I feel sorry for all the senior managers in my multinational. Workaholics with no lives and the most skewed perspective imaginable.

@CatnamedMittens

Ай бұрын

Cyanide

I MUST save this documentary, it keeps me sane!

The Silver Emu! gets my vote lol

I retired from the Australian Public Service some years ago - largely because of this sort of nonsense. This is so close to reality, it’s unsettling.

@userunknown7675

Ай бұрын

It'snot just Australia. As soon as politicians get involved (or a manager that isn't a subject matter expert) things become exactly like this. Half my day is spend on telling people what they need to do and when. Only for them to dump a rush job they knew about for months on my desk at the last minute (bonus points if the politician/manager involved already had a photo op in the papers anouncing the start of the project). I so love the my tony's in other departments, they get me involved early on and help me make sure that a bad project gets killed early and a good project gets streamlined. (Fuck the project managers though, except for 1 they are all a clueless bunch of twats)

@nikolaslarson6891

Ай бұрын

Don't worry it's the same all over the "Western" world. You probably know something called planning for results. Actually it means that in order to avoid a reduction of your budget next year you plan the most absurd and useless projects just in order to have something to show the investors. Any kind of investor, even involuntary ones, like taxpayers. Great series, it nails it!

@srpacific

Ай бұрын

Nah you retired cause of the cushy pension

Excellent series, Working Dog! "UIN" card ending deserving of a Loggie! The episode with "Bert", the "second pass" retiree showing the 7 billion dollar light rail could be done for 2 billion, then let go "to reduce gov't expenditure". Or, the student writing Ministerial Briefings on "Blockchain" and Jim's reflection on the news about the student's schoolwork. "Attention to detail. Very important in life." Where did you find that woman from HR??? To write "Excellent series, Working Dog!" is a massive undersell of this production. All involved justified feeling extremely(!) proud of their work.

Utopia is the best Australian Comedy show ever made. The Games is a very close 2nd, more like #1 and #1.01. But Utopia just skewers modern workplaces so well.

@geopolitix7770

14 күн бұрын

Thats a big call. Upper Middle Bogan? Clark and Dawe? Loved The Games though. So many to choose from!

This is fucking iconic 😂😂😂 production quality and acting off the charts. Reminds me of an angry The Office

I just want to say that I saw the shorts…and had to watch the series. I was not disappointed; “Yes Minister” for the 21st Century!

"A failure to plan is a plan for failure" "Give me the book" "Nah..." 😄

The WHS one fills me with rage

@willow6228

2 ай бұрын

agree - so accurate

@hoilst265

Ай бұрын

Oh, jesus. Rule #1 of WHS: COVER. THE ORGANISATION'S. BUTT. Who cares if the person gets medical treatment if it's not proveable that the organisation got them medical treatment and correctly logged the incident so they can prove they were getting them medical treatment...eventually? That and the Ash "Where are you from?" one. Man, I'm vaguely Chinese-ish Aussie, and I get that all the time. 9 times out of 10, the Chinese side of my family has been in the country longer than the person asking has. Well, technically speaking, my family was here before we were a country. I don't speak Chinese, actually can't eat much of the food (seafood allergy...), and grew up in rural NSW.

I only realised recently that Tony is the SAME TONY from the Hollowmen !!!

@bodybalanceU2

2 ай бұрын

he wrote both the shows

@janemacintyre9801

2 ай бұрын

@@bodybalanceU2 I didn't realise he was the same character though :)

@CRMSN_RDR

Ай бұрын

@@janemacintyre9801 is he I thought theybwere 2 diffrent characters

@janemacintyre9801

9 күн бұрын

Same CHARACTER

"I'm hoping they're a death metal band." 😂

It looks like a great show, not sure why it is not streamed outside Australia. Seems ABC could make money on international broadcast rights. Unless I get a VPN, I cant watch it in the US.

@Steve-jx3mh

2 ай бұрын

I think its called dreamland in the US

@christopheryoung3850

2 ай бұрын

It is streamed on Netflix.

@briangasser973

2 ай бұрын

@christopheryoung3850 Thank You! Not sure why it was renamed. Made searching for it a problem.

@briangasser973

2 ай бұрын

@@Steve-jx3mh thank you!

@michaelbootes4822

2 ай бұрын

@@briangasser973I think there’s an American sci-fi series of the same name. It may have been rebranded to avoid confusion

I can confirm that Canberra is exactly like this.

5:50 beautiful yes minister homage

@stultuses

2 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha, yes, this show is really a short skit version of Yes Minister, probably because people's attention spans these days are so short, they couldn't do a full Yes Minister version

@newremote

2 ай бұрын

@@stultuses These aren't stand alone short skits. They are brief excerpts from the half-hour episodes of Utopia that go to make up a series, like Yes Minister. There have been 5 series of Utopia, of 8 episodes each, since 2014.

I laughed and laughed then cried and cried-we experience this every day 🤦‍♀️

Every time I have to cram myself into a flying coffin to get from brisbane to melbourne I get even sadder about how impractical the Very Fast Train is.

Too close to the truth!😂 From the UK.

Love this show. Always quoting episodes whenever anything it predicted comes to life 😅 LOVE the last scene - Tony is so clever for that 😆

That consultant meeting is ridiculously accurate. I swear they have insiders feeding them info, theres actually these BS meetings between govt execs and EY/KPMG etc ('general consultants') where the government agency basically says 'write us this BS report that says a project is viable so we can build/do it even though we know its shit' and the consultant does it every time to keep em sweet, collect a cool 10mil for a couple of months work by 20 grads, and then the cycle repeats and they get more and more contracts. Oh, and they plant their own agenda into these reports to actually shape govt policy incognito over time. Enviro sustainability often morphs into fiscal sustainability just like something straight out the show, as but one I saw.

Just brilliant!

This show is so painful for me because this is how i feel every day in this world. In other words, this show is a fucking masterpiece

Any office worker can relate to this, its ridiculous how almost anywhere its the same

They keep flagging up building a Nuclear Power Station in Australia. Canberra is the ideal place to build it.

This show will have to end with tony and nat in a car yelling and holding hands as they drive off the end of an unfinished freeway overpass. 😂

Dear God this whole video feels like a leaked footage

the convos between tony and nat are the only ones where things make sense LMAOO i love it

This show is even more realistic than the Yes Minister series... this last though is gold... tracking Canberra

How have I never heard of this? Ohmygod. Right in the feels. Good looking out, OP.

Growing up i loved Yes Minister / Prime minister - great how these series have brought those themes into the modem context. Amazingly funny yet depressingly true!

I have been that guy shown some forsaken dirt patch by a developer touting urban sprawl drivel. This is too accurate for me to laugh, well done Working Dog.

Very good. Reminds me of "Yes, Minister".

I work in local authority. This IS REAL LIFE FOR ME

Pure gold.

Rob you are a master.

I feel like this video could alternatively be titled: every office job ever hahah

The incident report had dying. This literally happened to me, I cut my finger and was told “I can’t give you a plaster, I could lose my job if I don’t fill this out first”

I would add the sensitivity training clip to this. We had it recently... it was brutal...

Lemo should get an Emmy.

The ID cards killed me 😅

Working Dog really nailed the PWC et. al. gravy train. Poor taxpayers (suckers).

The very fast train is too relatable to Newcastle Sydney train situation.

I plan on using the Jevons Paradox in an argument to lower my property taxes.

Where can I stream this show in the USA?

"When we get to the future you're still in the past!" lol!

The one you've currently titled "Australia's Defence Policy In 2023 Explained" is still the most real tbh 😹

Those watching the politics around Brisbane 2032 Olympic preparations only need to see this show or that awesome show from the 90’s about the Sydney Olympic preparations called “The Games” it had Gina Riley in it and was hilarious.

Never heard of this show! Now I’m all ears 😂

Strangely I thought it was an ABC documentary on govt authorities. I thought the ABC was fortunate to get Rob Stich to perform.

When is this show coming to the UK?!

cringe laughed the whole way through those snippets. now just weeping

Everytime I see a new story about the Tasmania stadium I think of Utopia.

...magnificent .. 🙂🙃

Godlike sarcasm

This is brilliant humour... ask delivered dead-pan... but the scary thing is... it's exactly how many business/governments work...!

... I really want the super steam train.

I’m an American and this is absolutely hilarious 😂

This show would be the new office if made available easy in USA

Absolutely loving this!!!!!!!!!! Politics and comedy... two things dont jell well in my country...

Yes minister!

I was working for a Supermarket 🛑 in Australia and cut myself badly (bleeding wouldn't stop) all they wanted to do was file a report. I couldn't even drive MYSELF to a doctor

This show is so accurate I’m seething in anger and hatred

How do I watch these from America?

Where can I find this streaming in America? Great show

@christopheryoung3850

2 ай бұрын

Netflix...They renamed it 'Dreamland' for the US...in Australia it is called 'Utopia'.

@CatnamedMittens

Ай бұрын

​@@christopheryoung3850not available in the US

And we’re left with the train corridor 😅

Here, hear.

This has 'Yes Minister' quality potential for real! :)

@bodybalanceU2

13 күн бұрын

the hollow men their predessor is more in line with Yes minister as it is about an aussie PMs office

Wait, what is this show and why have i never heard of it before?

I find this show depressingly true.

Marvellous

Where can I watch the show😢

@Steve-jx3mh

2 ай бұрын

Abc iview and netflix as well has some seasons

7:43 We just had an "independent" consulting firm hired by shareholders to see if the CEO they chose makes them look like A$$hats for choosing him in the first place. The answer is yes, he does. But they spent a ton of money for someone to tell them: A) you (the shareholders), were stupid for hiring this guy. Or B) everything is industry standard and fine. knowing the kind of people who have a controlling stake in this enterprise... B should always be the correct answer.

Just 10 minutes? I thought you would upload all the seasons?

It just hurts to watch

@andypandy8569

2 ай бұрын

Those Working Dog bastards. Too clever by half!

Wanted to watch/buy this from Germany, but all your links are dead and I can't find any site that will sell it me. This is why torrenting is making a comeback..

Ah-mazing

Reminds me of Clarke and Dawe 😭😭

how do I watch outside of Australia!?😭