Onto nitpicking: I get that Nat has her job and she would get frustrated at environmental “vigilantes” complaining about her project, but scrub is just as important as rainforest! Grasslands are a really important part of Australia’s landscape, although probably less so in Queensland.Does anyone ever really take care of office plants? This wasn’t the funniest episode of Utopia (the performance review one is still one of the best things I’ve ever seen), but it was well structured, which is good to see. It was a funny runner, but I did wonder why they didn’t just get succulents. Tony’s spray-on deodorant was poisoning the plants and apparently they needed to be rotated.
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First they put dark tints on the windows so there was too much sunlight, but then they died from not enough. Meanwhile, the plant in Tony’s office has died, and they call a hotline to see what can be done about it, and suddenly there are many requirements for keeping the plants alive. She suddenly has interview requests, and really Rhonda is just thrilled, because all of this put them over 50,000 followers.
Nat decided to engage with them (never a good idea) and suddenly she was being compared to Goebbels and Pol Pot. There was buzz, but it was environmental groups (or vigilantes, some might say) protesting the development. Hugh reports to Nat that there was a lot of buzz around one of their projects in North Queensland, and then it started. She’s decided that they need to become more involved in social media, so the entire office becomes obsessed with the number of followers they have (the Treasurer followed them! But is it Joe Hockey or Scott Morrison?), which makes the office less efficient on the whole. Meanwhile, Rhonda has been to a conference, so she’s developed another scheme that ends up involving the whole office. Tony had a pretty good week – he got a bottle of Grange out of it too. Jim passes this to the developers and they decided to talk to the Planning Minister instead. It’s nice to see Tony win this week, as he suggests that if Jim really wants to start a conversation they should have a roundtable with all sorts of interest groups involved, including those that want to keep the Green Wedges. Tony just keeps telling Jim that they should talk to the Planning Minister, and they decline. These people (and Jim) are trying to wine and dine Tony so that he’ll somehow overturn State implemented planning zones, which he can’t do, because it’s a State government issue. Tony goes to the Grand Prix and Shannon Bennett’s restaurant Vue du Monde, and declines an invitation to meet a coal lobby group at the Australian Open. This is why we see Jim enthusiastic for meetings. The Green Wedges were specifically designed to prevent that from happening.Įvery once in a while there’s talk of expanding the urban growth boundary, because the developers throw a lot of money at the government to do so. The Australian Dream is a quarter-acre block with a house and a backyard, and that’s all well and good until our housing encroaches on agricultural land, which then has to expand into designated wildlife areas. When Steve Bracks was Premier of Victoria he implemented an urban growth boundary for the city of Melbourne to manage urban sprawl. I’m going to use this space (it’s my blog after all) to talk about the Green Wedges, which were described as ‘buffer zones’ from urban growth in the episode. Green wedges! Rainforests! Urban planning! Roundtables! And the title “Starting the Conversation” was brilliant, because Tony was trying to have a conversation with Jim and some sort of developers consortium about why he can’t interfere in State planning issues, and Rhonda was trying to ‘start the conversation’ by getting the office involved in social media, which went exactly how you’d expect. I majored in geography at university, so “Starting the Conversation” felt a little bit like my life at times. Environmental groups were outraged about a highway in Queensland going through a rainforest (what Nat referred to as scrub), while Tony was trying to convince Jim that he couldn’t interfere with State planning regulations, which is true. Nat only became involved in a project because of Rhonda’s decision to get the NBA involved on social media. This week on Utopia, everything felt connected thematically, even though Nat and Tony were, as usual, dealing with completely separate projects.
I asked you to give me an office storyline that I couldn’t nitpick, and the social media one felt very true, and I don’t yet know enough about indoor plants to nitpick that one either.
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