The longer-lived in our society probably struggled to achieve a level of comfort and financial security that many younger dwellers perceive as the norm.

Wish fulfilment is a regular part of the wants created by modern marketing, as is the trend towards attributing human desires and behaviour onto our family pets.

Whilst imagination and daydreaming can be good for the mind, a hard burst of reality from time to time helps balance out attitudes which may reign adversely.

Perhaps the person spoken of as sleeping rough under a blanket should at least used an eiderdown doona.

Yes, change is required and yesterday! Just don't hold your breath waiting for any of our parliaments do more than turn this and any other pressing issue into a political football!

If we just had truly affordable energy, most of this would cease to be.

The other missing element is, the social justice outcomes, only deliberately facilitated and funded cooperative capitalism can engender!

Don't expect to much change before the next poll that counts at which time, the born again "Christians" in our parliaments will suddenly find their inner socialist, start to wax eloquent about social justice etc.

The usual dumb bums out there, not understanding as they stay away or vote informal, this activity is, in essence, a vote for the incumbent/no real change!

The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting a different result.

On Q+A, we were exposed to the leader of the opposition's thoughts.

One of the speakers decided that the production of hydrogen could be done with coal/the carbon left buried.

Well, Shows how much science is on display in our parliaments or Q+A!

First, you have to mine/wash the coal to remove the sulphides. Then the coal needs to be cooked, with one supposes coal!?

To extract the available methane, which is then put through a well known frash process to hive off a few atoms of hydrogen, with liquid methanol left as one of the byproducts. As far as it goes, an excellent substitute for petrol! The hydrogen created would cost in excess of $6.00 liquid litre!

This shows the paucity of thinking in Labor ranks, the lengths some will go to maintain an idiotic opposition to, for peaceful purpose, nuclear energy! Which can b, with the right model be delivered below 3 cents PKWH! In perfect walk-away safety. Moreover, it is carbon-free energy and deliverable as reliable, dispatchable, carbon-free energy!

Only the most asinine, absurd, idiotic, baseless fear-mongering prevents us taking action on this front/on cooperative capitalism!

And ending these sad sights!
Alan B.

To the Alison Sweeneys of this world it is always some politicians fault or my fault or some other hard working citizens fault that some bum is sleeping rough. It is never the fault of the bum, who prefers grog or smoking some junk to paying for accommodation or food.

Spread your false sympathy somewhere else love, it won't work with real people, who can see it for what it is.

Then she is silly enough to bring Adam Goodes into the narrative. If ever there was an example of a thug trying to use racism to his advantage, this was it. Most of us were totally disinterested in him or his ancestry, until he started making a fool of himself.

Go peddle your hate of Australia & Australians somewhere else love, it won't wash here.

'Scots College in Sydney's east is undergoing $25.1 million major upgrade of its library building, '

actually small bickies compared to the $1 billion that Mr Morrison gave away to charlotans yesterday who are on the gw religion gra I think the gravy train.

I think Alison gives it away by pushing her very flawed narrative on Goodes and the Cronulla 'riots'. I dare say she would also be anti mining which provides much of the money for welfare, hospitals etc. Oh well the politics of 'envy'. I thought it was mainly the overpaid feminist on the abc (some over 300000 per year) that would be pushing this narrative while cashing in on the tax payer. Why does not the politics of envy ever extend to fathers who are denied the rights to see their kids?