For people like me, the Australia I was born into, was a meritocracy where one wage could get a family a home.
Times have changed.
The forty hour week is gone for far too many people.
But endeavour still inspires me.
Youth brings me hope.
As in my above poeticised image from a Maribyrnong Park Football Club match last Saturday.
Today we need young men to be lions.
But we don’t make it easy.
Reminds me of Shakespeare:
“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: ………”
I love to see young guys having a go.
But my heart bleeds for them, and young women, when I see what they are up against in modern Australia.
Geoff Fox May 2, 2025, Melbourne Australia.
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