Utopia Being A "Documentary" For 10 Minutes Straight! | Utopia
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Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.
Starring Rob Sitch, Celia Pacquola, Dave Lawson, Kitty Flanagan, Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann, Luke McGregor, Dilruk Jayasinha, Nina Oyama.
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0:00 The Jevons Paradox
0:58 Tasmania's Stadium
1:30 Workplace Injuries
2:19 Calling Customer Service
3:06 Future Funds
4:10 Workplace Respect
4:47 Very Fast Train
6:52 Government Websites
7:42 Independent Consultations
9:15 ID Cards
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.
Sad how true this comment is
They had this same thing before the 90s people are forever the same
As a Rhonda I can confirm 😂
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
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.
Tony: Tasmania does not want a stadium AFL: QUICK, ANNOUNCE A TEAM
money money... ahhh
@@wobblysauce we haven't got any - the state is in debt upto the eyeballs
@@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.
The IT department really upped their game after the smartGov debacle
Was that before or after the Census crash?
I work for a nsw government agency and this show is so accurate that it's scary
I do utilities & infrastructure economic consulting for the U.S. government and I don’t like that they outed us here.
Try Canberra… you would be shocked
same in Qld ...
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.
@@dimsoneill i mean how else will I afford my Beacon Hill apartment and Equinox membership
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
4:35 I love how her assumption that Ash would have 'lived experience' of her question is also racist lol
Yes!!! that is why this show is so brilliant - this is reality
Let’s dig deeper, respectfully. 😂😂
the 50-50 in the independent consultation bit brought back corporate memories!! excellent piece
What does the 50-50 thing mean?b
@@wildhairchronicles4009 the consultants basically wanted to know what the government wanted to hear just so they could tell them it. The consultants get paid quicker and the government get told what the want.
@@lord_duckian9521 In essence, a consultant tells the management what the staff tell them but puts it into management speak.
@@Mike-br8zt no, the consultants say whatever the government wants them to say regardless of if it’s true of not
Can’t help thinking about how hard it must have been to narrow the video down to just 10 minutes!
i love the last clip with tony and the bigwigs. reminds me of jim hacker foiling sir humphrey on yes prime minister.
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...
@@hoilst265 Love that episode.
😊@@hoilst265
I just love that “who’s on board?” with an innocently inquiring look can be such a good burn 😂
Australia's gift to the world of satire - as a former public servant, I can vouch for its accuracy and its brilliance
This show is beyond brilliant, and that last scene was so well done! Just watching everyone’s reaction as Tony laid out his plan! 😂
And the look!👀 on Rhonda's face when he does is beyond gold. Like, she knows what he's done.
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!
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
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.
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.
"i'm getting an icecream headache", I can recall hundreds of times I could've used that line 🤣
This was the best show ever! Rob is killing it. Lots of love from Romania.
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".
All of the Anglosphere is the same,anyone would think it was co-ordinated.
People that fall into the Rhonda category, should never be allowed into the building
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.
"I thought I banned her from the building.." - A line in one of the episodes
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 🤭
If you're looking for something similar to this, there's a british show called "The Thick of it" with a similar vibe
Loved that show too! 😂😂
You left the best bit to the last!
The world wide professional managerial class desperately needs psilocybin mushroom therapy.
This is true. I feel sorry for all the senior managers in my multinational. Workaholics with no lives and the most skewed perspective imaginable.
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.
I MUST save this documentary, it keeps me sane!
Love this show. Always quoting episodes whenever anything it predicted comes to life 😅 LOVE the last scene - Tony is so clever for that 😆
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.
"A failure to plan is a plan for failure" "Give me the book" "Nah..." 😄
Can i check if they are Breathing...? Not Yet..
I only realised recently that Tony is the SAME TONY from the Hollowmen !!!
he wrote both the shows
@@bodybalanceU2 I didn't realise he was the same character though :)
"I'm hoping they're a death metal band." 😂
This is fucking iconic 😂😂😂 production quality and acting off the charts. Reminds me of an angry The Office
The WHS one fills me with rage
agree - so accurate
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.
I think its called dreamland in the US
It is streamed on Netflix.
@christopheryoung3850 Thank You! Not sure why it was renamed. Made searching for it a problem.
@@Steve-jx3mh thank you!
@@briangasser973I think there’s an American sci-fi series of the same name. It may have been rebranded to avoid confusion
Any office worker can relate to this, its ridiculous how almost anywhere its the same
5:50 beautiful yes minister homage
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
@@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 🤦♀️
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!
Too close to the truth!😂 From the UK.
The very fast train is too relatable to Newcastle Sydney train situation.
Dear God this whole video feels like a leaked footage
How have I never heard of this? Ohmygod. Right in the feels. Good looking out, OP.
They keep flagging up building a Nuclear Power Station in Australia. Canberra is the ideal place to build it.
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.
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.
Just brilliant!
This show is even more realistic than the Yes Minister series... this last though is gold... tracking Canberra
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. 😂
The one you've currently titled "Australia's Defence Policy In 2023 Explained" is still the most real tbh 😹
Rob you are a master.
Pure gold.
Where can I stream this show in the USA?
It’s so funny because it’s so true to form for our inept pollies!
Lemo should get an Emmy.
I’m an American and this is absolutely hilarious 😂
I find this show depressingly true.
cringe laughed the whole way through those snippets. now just weeping
I plan on using the Jevons Paradox in an argument to lower my property taxes.
I can confirm that Canberra is exactly like this.
Where can I find this streaming in America? Great show
Netflix...They renamed it 'Dreamland' for the US...in Australia it is called 'Utopia'.
Its called Bread and games
Just 10 minutes? I thought you would upload all the seasons?
When is this show coming to the UK?!
If 2x as many people are using the road, then that's a benefit. Those people are going somewhere they want to go.
In the actual rule, there's exactly as many people going to just as any places, just in a smaller space.
Not necessarily. The model assumes these people are already going to where they want to. In terms of cars, more people just use their cars individually where normally they were carpooling or using the bus. So instead of sitting your kid on the school bus, without traffic, parents would just drop their kids off themselves
...magnificent .. 🙂🙃
It just hurts to watch
Those Working Dog bastards. Too clever by half!
How do I watch these from America?
Twelve plus eight and two after that.
Genius!
... I really want the super steam train.
I thought this whole show was a documentary
how do I watch outside of Australia!?😭
Where can I watch the show😢
Abc iview and netflix as well has some seasons
Wait, what is this show and why have i never heard of it before?
the scary part is how you'd think and you'd hope that idiots will collapse and ruin everything and they go down the shitter with their idiot solutions and ideas, and then you see in real life that they are doing just fine, in most cases a lot better than someone with common sense, experience, knowledge, understanding, capability.
I enjoy every clip I ever see from this show but is this show only like 5 episodes? I only see the same clips again and again. I wanna see more of it. 😂
Here, hear.
This is to accurate...
.....Hoping they're a Death Metal Band! 😂😂😂
i'm going to live in the desert with a dog
Utopia should do a show, or even a season on DELWP in Victoria. Absolute basket case.
Absolutely loving this!!!!!!!!!! Politics and comedy... two things dont jell well in my country...
This show is so amazing, it’s so close to reality. But also: I cannot watch this show, it’s too close to reality.
I love John Legend :'D
What is this show I need to see it? 🤗🤗
Utopia
I knew I should have moved to Australia
Marvellous
This show is hilarious even viewed from Sweden corporate culture!
I would *love* to watch this series; but, sadly, it's only available in Australia. Yet its presentation of how government works at the municipal offices level shows how universal is human behavior. How can I watch this series in Canada?
torrent it
Available under the name dreamland
5:41 didn’t these people wage a war against emus?
I can't watch without being triggered & having a panic attack 😳
The age of word salads. Welcome to America.
Love the show . Cant watch this .🤪
So glad I left Victoria
As if this doesn’t happen Australia wide? Unless you left Australia, in which case, I stand corrected
Was the coffee drugged?
It looks great, yet very frustrating at the same time. Way too close to reality...
Totally unique to see something so witty and clever coming from Australia of all places.
We would value your independent assessment... in the form of. I wouldnt want to presuppose... suppose you did. Any questions... not now
Canberran can’t watch this documentary. Too close to work 😂 everything is too personal
Thought this was the already existing, much better UK show named Utopia or the other already existing reboot, much much worse US show also called Utopia
😂😂😂😂
I can't watch it. It's far too real and depressing lol.