Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury the Furious Friday edition. This is part 4 of the mini-series. Hope you all had a good Christmas. In the last episode, we talked about how the population is mobilised in a political spectrum. Today we talk about what the population is currently being mobilised for:   Australian politicians/interest groups - the idea of the “fair go” Australia’s last four prime ministers have all used the term at some point. (Hard to keep track of them now) Rudd used it on Howard’s WorkChoices reforms. Gillard said it in “we are the people who hold onto mateship and the fair go” Turnbull used it when saying “We have a very unique culture in Australia and we have a very good mixture of capitalism and the free market, but we also have a culture of fair go, of looking after each other.” What is this ‘fair go’? Well it’s impossible to associate the idea of the “fair go” with any precise meaning. It is essentially whatever the person using the term regards as fair or just from their frame of reference.