Utopia: Series 5 (Working Dog)
The Nation Building Authority: not filmed in Canberra, but spiritually from there.
Utopia is the closest thing Australia has to a hidden-camera show about Canberra. Working Dog's brilliant satire drops you inside the Nation Building Authority, where good intentions go to be announced, re-announced and quietly shelved, and where every infrastructure triumph is really a media opportunity waiting for a hi-vis vest. Series 5 delivers more of the same excruciating, perfect comedy — the deadlines, the spin, the meetings about meetings. For the public servant who watches through their fingers, the contractor who has lived it, or anyone who has ever received an email that could have been a phone call, it is the ideal knowing gift. Not set in Canberra, exactly — but everyone in Canberra knows it is about them.
- Series 5 of Working Dog's razor-sharp public-service satire
- Follows the beleaguered Nation Building Authority
- Every announcement, backflip and stakeholder meeting you know too well
- A gift that hits close to home for anyone in government