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No, I don’t think it fair to say that Fingertips. She was on a ‘listening tour’ and was hearing things from us that I think she was hearing for the first time. There is nothing she could reasonably have said in response without going back to base and checking things out at that end.
Personally, I would have been much more concerned if she had made commitments there and then based only on what we had told her. That, to me, would have been irresponsible of her and would have demonstrated that she really isn’t interested and was just pandering to us and trying to fob us off.
Obviously, everything I have said is subject to the ‘the proof of the pudding’ caveat. But on face value, and by eyeballing her in that boardroom yesterday, I am happy for now to accept that Raelene is fair dinkum in wanting to mend fences over here. Believe me, as soon as I even sniff a sense of ‘it’s the same old ARU’, I will be on the barricades with the rest of you. I have her business card and won’t be afraid to make contact if I smell a rat.