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For those interested,
Andrew Liveris,
former chairman and CEO of DOW Chemicals address.
Could be a wake up for some...
I would consider many addresses on the press club are big wasters of time.
This one not.

iview.abc.net.au

National Press Club Address: Andrew Liveris

Andrew Liveris, Former Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company, addresses the Press Club on Leadership in the 21st Century: How to respond to increasing volatility and the new tectonic trends defining our world.
iview.abc.net.au iview.abc.net.au
 
frugal.rock said:
I would consider many addresses on the press club are big wasters of time.
This one not.
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Well I'm sure he's not actually quoting me, indeed he's never heard of me, but I've said the exact same words that he's using around the 26 - 27 minute mark more than once.

The bizarre notion that competition exists within Australia needs to stop yes. The real competition is and has always been from the outside not the inside.

The good thing is someone credible like him is saying it but listening to the content, well pretty much all of it's been covered on this very forum by someone at some point. We need to get smart, we need to manufacture, digging holes in the ground and selling the rocks to China really isn't the way forward, short termism is a disease that's not at all helpful and so on. Don't even mention energy......

It's all been said many times by many people but hopefully this man has the influence to get the message through.

From an investment perspective, well he's basically advocating that the economic and political ideology which has prevailed since the 1980's needs to be reversed. Invest accordingly. :2twocents
 
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frugal.rock said:
Andrew Liveris,
former chairman and CEO of DOW Chemicals
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Haven't listened but for my loose purposes this man is effectively a stooge of the CCP. To be disregarded like Bob Carr or even China Development Bank advisor, Paul Keating. Liveris was warning Australians recently to be careful of what they say about China.

This excerpt from ''The Peoples' Daily' - what an Orwellian lie they are. Quoting Liveris:

PEOPLE'S DAILY: In 2015, you spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping. What's your impression of him?

LIVERIS: "I was lucky to have a front-row seat thirty years ago when the late leader Deng Xiaoping opened China to the world. And in the decades since, I have had the privilege of participating as China’s rise has transformed not only China, but the rest of the global conomy.

President Xi is a remarkable leader, with a strategic mind and a clear vision of where he wants China to be in the near- and long-term. His China Dream vision and Belt and Road initiative are examples of his extraordinary mind.

Overall, I think China is on a great trajectory under President Xi. China’s economy is accelerating its pivot to the domestic sector, transitioning from being an exporter of basic materials to a creator and consumer of high-tech goods and products. These efforts will enable China’s economy to continue to progress and grow, generating opportunities for businesses throughout the globe.

At Dow, we have chosen to be part of this transformation and are committed to supporting China ... "

Success for one means an opportunity for the other: Dow Chemical CEO - People's Daily Online

File Photo: Andrew Liveris Andrew Liveris, Executive Chairman of DowDuPont and Chairman and C
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finicky said:
Haven't listened but for my loose purposes this man is effectively a stooge of the CCP. To be disregarded like Bob Carr or even China Development Bank advisor, Paul Keating. Liveris was warning Australians recently to be careful of what they say about China.
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He draws a clear distinction between what's good for economics and what's good for national security and emphasises the importance of not confusing the two.

He also says globalisation is reversing and we need to rely less on China.

I'm not sure how that fits with being a CCP stooge?

Anyway, from an investment perspective if government follows even 10% of what he's saying well then that has implications for quite a few stocks so those with a long term view would be wise to at least consider the message and, regardless of whether they agree or disagree, the possibiltiy that it may be actioned. :2twocents
 
qldfrog said:
Before even Rogan response, what a turd this chair is.
I so resent that my taxes are feeding this piece of human entitled arrogant garbage why on hell do every Australian has to pay for what Elon accurately called "their Pravda"
The Abc is exactly that, a Pravda...
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I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. Rogan just has conversations with people.
 
Rogan doesn't get these sort of stats

In March 2020, 84% of Australians surveyed agreed ABC News 'is a valuable source of news to the Australian community' and 72% agreed it is 'Australia's most trusted source of news and current affairs'.
 
wayneL said:
I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. Rogan just has conversations with people.
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conversation...that is not ABC, it has to be propaganda..even podcast conversation with Richard fiddler is so heavily biased..and yet i like the whole format
 
IFocus said:
Rogan doesn't get these sort of stats

In March 2020, 84% of Australians surveyed agreed ABC News 'is a valuable source of news to the Australian community' and 72% agreed it is 'Australia's most trusted source of news and current affairs'.
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Rogan isn't a publically funded news channel. He sits in a room and talks to people.

But with a regular podcast audience about 28x larger (14m v. 500k) than CNN's primetime audience, I suspect he's pretty chuffed.
 
A man and an organisation that live in a different reality.
He doesn't watch Rogan but he's morally certain he's the devil.
How dare Rogan talk to people and then broadcast them without filter to us proles.

Defund this organisation now and let the 84% support it through a subscription model ....I can't wait to see the numbers.
 
Internal documents from the corporation, seen by the Australian Financial Review, suggest that less than 8% of viewers for ABC's main 7pm news bulletin are under 40. What's more, around two-thirds of viewers are over 65.


The above information sums it up well, I suppose.
IMO I think there has been a more balanced view on issues, since Williams recently took over, but let's face it the stats prove the ABC is going the way of the dinosaurs, with the younger generation.
 
I remember a few years ago that media outlets named a guy as a paedophile because the police said that they found child exploitation material on his phone, the media followed this guy into court plastering his face all over the local news, but it came out in court that his EX partner took the pics of her own child after they had a dispute, sent them to his phone and then rung the police on him.
 
IFocus said:
Rogan doesn't get these sort of stats

In March 2020, 84% of Australians surveyed agreed ABC News 'is a valuable source of news to the Australian community' and 72% agreed it is 'Australia's most trusted source of news and current affairs'.
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I wonder what the results would be today if a survey was conducted.

At a guess I would say 50%

My adult children, both with double degrees, one a lawyer, don't get their media from the ABC. And they grew up in our house with us watching and listening to ABC for about 70% of our media content.

The friends of our adult children hardly use the ABC.

And I have reduced my ABC TV consumption from 75% to 2%, Radio from 99% to 70%, online content from 40% to 5%.

The ABC was once a resourceful and almost bipartisan and fair media source, with staff that represented all Australians, giving more facts and news than opinions. Over the past few years, the ABC has turned into an opinion-based information service, with majority of the staff members representing the viewpoint of the Sydney and Melbourne elite.

The ABC has become boring and predictable.

I still regard the ABC as an important Australian institution, and it must remain. However, I also believe that the ABC is overfunded and under the control of the staff and ABC union.

It is no longer 'our ABC". If it was, they would be discussing and showing the same thing that the majority of us talk about in pubs and on forums like this.
 
JohnDe said:
I wonder what the results would be today if a survey was conducted.

At a guess I would say 50%

My adult children, both with double degrees, one a lawyer, don't get their media from the ABC. And they grew up in our house with us watching and listening to ABC for about 70% of our media content.

The friends of our adult children hardly use the ABC.

And I have reduced my ABC TV consumption from 75% to 2%, Radio from 99% to 70%, online content from 40% to 5%.

The ABC was once a resourceful and almost bipartisan and fair media source, with staff that represented all Australians, giving more facts and news than opinions. Over the past few years, the ABC has turned into an opinion-based information service, with majority of the staff members representing the viewpoint of the Sydney and Melbourne elite.

The ABC has become boring and predictable.

I still regard the ABC as an important Australian institution, and it must remain. However, I also believe that the ABC is overfunded and under the control of the staff and ABC union.

It is no longer 'our ABC". If it was, they would be discussing and showing the same thing that the majority of us talk about in pubs and on forums like this.
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They suck up to minorities and don't bother asking the people on the street what they want to see, hear and read.

I want information that is useful to me not more sob stories about racism/sexism/exploitation/misogyny etc.

The Voice result should have been a kick in the pants for the ABC. Their attempt at social engineering failed miserably, and I for one smiled quietly to myself. ;)

As far as Rogan goes, I believe he lives in another country and most Aussies have never heard of him. He has no relevance to us.
 

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