For years I’ve been outspokenly optimistic about Australia, but more recently I’ve changed…

I look with concern at exponential government debt, surging inflation, weak GDP, global tensions, partisan media, Critical Race Theory (whatever that is), assaults on free speech, harassment of minority views, the looming energy crunch, and the head of the hydra ‘global warming alarmism’.

And how could I leave out lockdowns in pursuit of zero-Covid that were reinforced by state-sponsored vaccine extremism?

I ain’t feeling like we’re heading for sunlight uplands…

We could become doomsday preppers; buy remote land, get off the grid, sit on the porch, and watch the world speed...