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After a visit to a military base goes wrong the Prime Minister becomes concerned that not enough people are joining the armed forces. The Unit are asked to solve the problem.

Pressure mounts on the Government to fund an expensive new pill, despite evidence that it may not be worth funding at all.

The PM's plans to increase spending on national security run into trouble when the Department starts talking about cost-cutting. Meanwhile the Unit ends up exploiting some eager High School students who have won a trip to Canberra.

The planned publication of a report on the selection criteria for overseas diplomatic postings threatens to derail the plans to appoint a long standing and demanding senator as ambassador to anywhere but here.

After a radio interview turns into a talk back session where the topic of obesity comes up, the Prime Minister's team of advisers has to deliver the goods after the Prime Minister is accused of always looking into it but never doing anything. He declares that he will soon announce some new measures to tackle the problem. Fine tuning the new measures becomes coming up with some ideas from scratch.

When conflict breaks out overseas, the Central Policy Unit must find a way to intervene without hurting the international relationships. Murph quickly finds that there is a lot of talk, but not much action.

Tired of opening other people's buildings, the Prime Minister dreams of leaving his own architectural legacy.

Global warming is hot on the agenda with the Unit taking up the government's new 'carbon challenge'. But a blindsighted promise to raise emission standards with China may cause some serious problems for international relations.