442 – The Mali Scar
Good government is not just about what you get done. It’s about showing that they’re worth doing. It’s about listening while there’s still time to change what’s gonna happen. And it’s about owning the results afterwards. Because the public is not an obstacle for the government to solve. The public is the reason for the government. Robert Godden. A year ago, political commentator Robert Godden’s pin-up was Premier Peter Malinauskas. Steve recorded this episode on the day the chainsaws began clearing Parklands trees for the MotoGP track, and asked Robert how that view has changed. His answer is about listening, and former geopolitics lecturer David Olney explains why governments seem to have stopped doing it. From there the conversation follows the same thread through the MotoGP circuit, a proposed data centre at Tungkillo in the Adelaide Hills and the ramping crisis. It ends with Robert’s one-sentence view of what government
