Oh Dear, come on Keith and Sancho get back to the subject, we have moved out of the 60's, much as I wish we were still so naive and so unstressed.

The fact is, a tax, which will effect all of this country is about to be implemented. Back in the 60s I voted for the labour government because I was brought up in a labour orientated environment and we, our family, we all bloody hard workers for little remuneration and were labour through and thought.

I have now come to the conclusion that the labour party has not lived up to my expectations - not in the last decade that is. There is little to choose from because the parties are so much politically alike.

Therefore, I am thinking of being "a swinger". There's an old 60s saying, but not in that context. I will vote liberal at the next state election (my father and grandfather would roll over in their non existent graves (cremated!).

As for the federal government, well, Kevin Rudd has not won me yet, I am still very put out by the ETS as well as this indiscriminate spending on 'green' pink bats and solar energy which is going to cost people a lot of money in the long run.

I am getting the feeling more and more that Mr. Rudd wants to be a celebrity on the world stage rather than doing what is right for the 'working' people of this country. Is he still labour orientated? The ETS was never a mandate but he is trying to make it one now. Why? Don't say "to save the world" from CO2 emissions, that really is a joke.

You are right RaeBee most of us have moved out of the sixties. Sancho clearly hasn't.

I think my analogy of the effects (future) of the blind belief idiocy of man made climate warming will result in the same sort of social dislocation, for young people, as was caused by the likes of the, eventually totaly undermined, free love and flower power movements on youngsters of that era.

Sancho still believes such forces were in some way positive and proclaims their resurgence.

I think you are quite wrong to think the 60's were a time for naivety and stresslessness. Quite the opposite was the fact most of us lived with.

I am cheered by your reasoned position on climate warming. It is people like you who will lead and dominate our society's response and action on climate change. Just like it was people like you who rejected the excesses of the 60's but worked towards a more self critical attitude which ultimately produced our now more accepting and open society.

Good on you and go for it. I love people like you, you mirror the decent people of my youth.