The Australian Economic Disaster Unfolding, page-129

@madamswer; my great grandparents came to Australia as free settlers from Ireland [County Armagh], the UK [coal miner in Cornwall] and New Zealand in the early 1860s [I do not claim to be Irish, English or Maori though as I regard myself as Australian].

Many people work damn hard all their lives only to get to old age and find themselves having to rely on public support. For whatever reason doors don't open for them and they never make influential contacts such as a judge on the High Court.

Of course many people inherit money while some like Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull manage to make themselves materially wealthy.

Then there's what some our politicians do.