The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.
Ian McLeodWhat takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.
Ian McLeodIn comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
Ian McLeodI think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.
Ian McLeodI've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.
Ian McLeodI think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.
Ian McLeodIn some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.
Ian McLeodIf you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.
Ian McLeodYou don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.
Ian McLeodWhen you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.
Ian McLeodI'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.
Ian McLeodThere is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.
Ian McLeodHaving a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
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