My neighbour would agree with you that necessity is the mother of invention.
Like you he came to Aus from Europe but when I asked him was he an economic or a political migrant then, he gave me a rye smile and he said "none of the above".
He said that being from 1960s Ireland monkey gripped by the Catholic Church where contraception was banned, he came here as a sexual refugee ;; "how humanitarian is that now" he says to me in a still rank Irish accent!
