Back in mid 2000s Australia was chill, calm and relaxed place. Everyone was relaxed and friendly. No one worried about anything. It was very refreshing compared to pretentious, stressful and often downright mean Moscow, where I lived before. Australia was a country of people who knew how to enjoy themselves and enjoyed life to the fullest, a paradise on earth. I too was happy back then.
That however changed with advent of Financial Crisis. A stressful time that was meant to be temporary upset but crept on and on ended up becoming a new norm. All sort of stress and crisis have followed. Employment crisis, rental shortages, Medicare, COVID, cost of living. It goes on and on for more than a decade.
All this stress made country and us miserable. Noise and mess and crowds everywhere. Crazy people roam the streets. Crime is on the rise. Almost everyone gave up on everything fun and now only jog or lift in never-ending gyms. That is near opposite of what paradise is.
Now, after a decade of that mess under Libs, they actually pitch to us with a slogan "to get country back on track". On track to what, to keep this Toon's mess going even longer. Track is a lie; it's only a road to hell and completely un-Australian.
We do not need to get back on track. We are not circus ponies to run truck in circles every day like hamster in a wheel.
Instead, we should get back to pools, barbeques, surfboards, boats, fishing rods, videogames, vacays, palms, beaches, thongs, eskys, pubs and of course beer - all thing that make life fun and worth living. Now that is an Australian idea.
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