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13 to 9, good news. Richard Allen is your new CEO of Fonterra this morning. His president has been president of global ingredients responsible for ingredient sales optimization risk management. In other words, he's from inside the company. Obviously, it's a succession type operation because the resignation hasn't been that long. They obviously had a number of names lined up and set to go. He joined Fonterra. This is a great story. He joined Fonterra as a graduate in 2008. So he's almost been there 20 years. China is VP of the food services business. Step in. Step into the role beginning of May. Miles Hurrell stays on in an advisory capacity until September. So we'll get him on the programme sometime. He can introduce himself to all of us and we wish him all the very best, obviously. Mike, I agree with your sentiment in relation to the media 100%. It might be a good idea to have your own newsreader at the station not deliver the news in crisis mode. What's the problem? Why are you so down on your other media compatriots just trying to keep people informed? Isn't that their job? No, you completely missed my point. Their job is to keep people informed, yes, but when you're running videos of go-bags and when you're telling people to be scared and when you're telling people to act now and when you're... And when you're telling people to adjust their holidays, and this is not just the media, this is people in the media. So the people from the various weather services these days who have taken on some sort of faux psychologist role in telling us how to live our lives, their job is to deliver a forecast. And my main point was they weren't delivering a forecast because they didn't have one. They didn't have one until late Friday afternoon when they felt confident to give an actual forecast, which, as it turns out, was wrong, not their fault. But up until that point, the ensuing days is what I was saying, the Monday, the Tuesday. Wednesday, the Wednesday, the Thursday, half of Friday, they were telling us what to do, where to do it and why to do it because of something that they couldn't pin down. And that's not their job and it's not the media's job to tell us how to live our lives as well. and to be scared and to have shops and clothes and supercar events cancelled, and we've just got an attitude in this country where there's a group of people in this country who I'm convinced, I hope it's the minority, and I hope it's a small minority, but I fear I'm wrong, that are just perfectly happy to have their lives, just their bums wiped, it's Jacinda Ardern all over again. It's just tell me what to do, tell me where to be. Tell me where to behave. Tell me which of the animals I need to put in the window, and I'll be happy. Do you want me to close my business? No problem. Do you want me to lay some people off? No problem. Can I have some free government money? Absolutely no problem at all. It's that psychology and psyche that damages this country, and that's what I worry about. 10 to 9.