Election 2022 (Poll added)

[DJC]

Im only 40.  Perhaps you shouldnt be dismissive sighting a bunch of crap that mostly occurred before I was born.

Ill remind you at this stage, that people my age are more than likely not going to retire but work until we cark it, and you can forget about a pension and the average house price in most of the melbourne suburbs that will leave you with an average CBD commute of roughly 1 hour in each direction will cost us 1 million dollars today.

The point is that freedoms you take for granted weren’t available to me when I was 20.

It’s also worth noting that folk today are free from TB, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, etc; all diseases that family and friends had and some of which I had.

It’s unfortunate that time travel is fictional; folk who think they’re hard done by today wouldn’t survive if they were transported back to the mid-20th century.

My children are around your age Thry.  My daughter has substantial equity in her home and she and her husband have excellent superannuation.  My son and his wife have just bought a house about 20km north of the CBD.  They already own two apartments and are both salaried workers.  They are all very angry with our Commonwealth government for its failure to address social, economic and environmental issues but acknowledge that their lives are much easier than that of their parents and grandparents.