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Originally posted by hollandpark: ↑

What a lot of rear-view mirror tripe. I'm a child of the 1960's - here's a snapshot of that decade.

My father won the casket in 1961 and bought a FJ Holden - the equivalent of $51 000 today so not cheaper than today's equivalent. And sure it was a good car but nowhere near as reliable as the Korean import I've been driving for the past 13 years.

Great career prospects if you were a young man looking for a career in the trades. Not so great for women, who had poor education prospects and often expected to quit working after they were married.

Cheap beef and lamb, sure but at what cost to the environment. We've absolutely ruined a large percentage of this country with grazing livestock in totally unsuitable areas. Food is no more expensive in general now, in fact food costs as a percentage of wages have decreased. I know that my diet is more varied, healthy and tasty than the diet I grew up with. You can stick to your meat and 3 veg if you like.

The Beaumont and Mackay children didn't come home safely after dark, did they? Violent crime was actually statistically higher in the 19th century and other than an increase in the 1970's and 1980's, has been remarkable stable all this and last century.

Oh and the National Party members who ran Queensland from the 1960's were paragons of virtue too.

We actually have plenty of doctors - in fact we have a tsunami of doctors in specialist training. What we have is a logjam in the hospitals where these trained doctors can't get positions and a mismatch between rural, regional and metropolitan doctor numbers. Like everyone else, doctors want to live in the city or regional areas close by.

The Australia I grew up in seems a distant land, one I'm very glad to bid bon voyage to.

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You must remember the old Lighburn Zeta car? What a flop. Gears? 1st; 2nd; then Spin Dry !
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