About this episode

The episode discusses Telstra's challenges, Australia's AI decision, and the Prime Minister's podcast issues.

This week Chanticleer columnist Anthony Macdonald and Australian Financial Review editor Cosima Marriner discuss Telstra's real problem at the end of a bad week, go over the big AI decision Australia needs to make and unpack the Prime Minister's podcast fail. This podcast is sponsored by Elston To ask a question, email chanticleer@afr.com . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Cosima Marriner

Guest: Anthony Macdonald

Topics covered

• Telstra
• AI decision
• Australian politics
• podcast fail
• business news

Keywords

• Telstra
• AI
• Australia
• podcast
• politics
• business
• Elston

Sponsors

Elston

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Telstra, Australian Financial Review

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