Sam’s new newlywed status
UNTIL she recently tied the knot, Samantha Armytage concedes that she felt as though she were married to her job — and it wasn’t always of her own choice.
“Bosses don’t ask as much of you if you’re a wife or mother. I’ve never shied away from hard work, but there was an expectation that Sam would do it because she’s got nothing else going on,” she tells Stellar magazine in tomorrow’s Sunday Tasmanian.
“[Sometimes I’d think] ‘Well, actually, I’d get something else going on if you didn’t make me do this.”
In a wide-ranging interview to launch her new stellar podcast Something to Talk About, Armytage opens up about being married and how the TV industry can’t be a forever job.
“TV isn’t a place that’s necessarily very healthy. It’s full of sociopaths and narcissists — it can be a dangerous environment, let me tell you.”
In the interview, Armytage expands on how her new podcast enabled her to re-engage her creative side. “We’re getting to the point in the media where you can’t say a lot. It’s not as much fun as it used to be because there’s so much outrage,” she said.
“Everyone is so woke and no one is saying what they actually think because they’re frightened.
“If you say what the average Australian is thinking on air you get hammered for it by the vocal minority
“I feel really deeply that my creative side isn’t being used as much as it should.
“The podcast came to me at a fantastic time and it’s a wonderful, wonderful vehicle for storytelling, which is why I got into journalism. I’m not in it for the selfies and make-up.”
CREATING lists of priority infrastructure projects is all very well, but what’s more important is getting on with building them, Labor Senator Carol Brown says.
Senator Brown welcomed the release of Infrastructure Australia’s 2021 Priority List — with the listing of upgrades to Hobart and Burnie ports — but noted other priority projects were still yet to be delivered.
“The fact Burnie and Hobart ports are on the radar for infrastructure investment is welcome,” she said. “It is not before time. As we have seen, the state and federal Liberal governments have dropped the ball consistently when it comes to announcing and re-announcing vital infrastructure projects but not delivering them.
“The Morrison government needs to explain to Tasmanians how they plan to deliver.”
Senator Brown pointed to promises to build the replacement Bridgewater Bridge, bust congestion in Hobart, build a fifth lane on the Southern outlet, improve traffic flow on Macquarie and Davey streets and connections to the Channel Highway and Southern Outlet.