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Brett Watson

65:44 - 66:11

“I was presenting data from 2023 because that's sort of the latest data that we have available to us to see what actually got spent”
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That's a very difficult exercise to replicate at scale. And so, like I said, I think there have been pockets of efforts to try to understand it, but it would be a really valuable activity, I think, to try to undertake. Just, you know, what is—. Trying to understand what this landscape looks like has been challenging, and we're constantly having to wait. You know, I was presenting data from 2023 because that's sort of the latest data that we have available to us to see what actually got spent, right?

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