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🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm not a fan of the song, but I'm not a fan of the song. |
0:07.0 | I'm not a fan of the song, but I'm not a fan of the song. |
0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from NaNo! |
0:33.0 | My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Toshinsky and Drew Huntson Murray and James Harkin. |
0:40.0 | And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go. |
0:49.0 | Starting with fact number one and that is Anna. |
0:53.0 | My fight this week is that in 2015 paramedics in Australia stopped asking patients to name the Prime Minister as a test of mental capacity. |
1:03.0 | Because the answer changes so often, it's no longer considered a reliable indicator. |
1:11.0 | It's amazing. |
1:12.0 | Absolutely. And it's true isn't it? Australia is constantly trading its PM. |
1:17.0 | In fact there's a Twitter account which is called at who is PM where it gives basically half hourly updates going it's still Scott Morrison. |
1:26.0 | So what you're saying is if you're in some kind of problem the paramedics come along you have to go I'm just need to go on Twitter really. |
1:33.0 | They did say I think the reason the particular paramedic who was interviewed and asked if I read this thing the reason he said he stopped doing it was because he'd actually had a patient whom he'd asked who's the Prime Minister and they just said I don't know I haven't watched the news today. |
1:46.0 | Very nice. That's a strong answer. |
1:49.0 | I didn't really know how crazy Australia I don't know anything about Australian politics before this and so just to clarify it there's this big thing of ousting your predecessor. |
1:58.0 | So in 2010 Julia Gillard ousted Kevin Rudd and that was really exciting after only three years but then in 2013 Julia Gillard was ousted guess who by Kevin Rudd. |
2:09.0 | Then in 2015 Malcolm Turnbull ousted Tony Abbott then Turnbull stayed on and it was basically there are so many politics so many PMs specifically in that short period. |
2:19.0 | It was five PMs in five years if you count Rudd twice which you could because many people say he's sort of got two different personalities. |
2:27.0 | What's amazing is none of us in this room really know anything about him but we all knew it anyway. |
2:33.0 | It could be worse if you're in Nepal for instance and you get caught in an accident but they since they became a democracy in 1951 they've had 53 changes of government. |
2:43.0 | That's a lot. |
2:45.0 | Yeah that's tough although if Australia kept up it's one a year which it hasn't actually since 2015 but you know it would be beating Nepal. |
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