Agreed. Calling people idiots if they vote differently to you is not a way to swing them around to your side of the political spectrum.

Most people aren’t idiots. If someone is opposed to your views, find out why and try to understand how they came to their conclusion.

Good for you. Sounds like a nice lifestyle.

Likewise, not everyone got those lucky opportunities. Not everyone has managed to find a partner. Some people have been working towards a lifestyle similar to yours and had it all blow up in their face due to their health or job losses or relationship breakdowns etc.

It’s fine to say ‘life is great’ when you’ve had good rolls of the dice every time you’ve taken a risk, and your setbacks haven’t been so catastrophic that you couldn’t financially recover.

I just watched the YouTube video and to be honest, it looks like a highly edited and cut up video that has no context.

Without dates and time stamps of when she supported trump, and knowing that Pauline’s been in politics for years and could have said she supports trump in context of damn near anything, I think the video is going to be too easily dismissed as a cherry picked edit rather than presenting facts about what Pauline actually stands for.

Edit: but I think it’s great there is some attempt to stop a ‘one nation’ Australia. Hopefully more to come!

I wish the article had of started with the homeless woman living in Brisbane rather than the vanlifer from Ipswich.

This article was more about homelessness and the increased burden these people are enduring but it gave the initial impression that it was about people who couldn’t go on holiday while they rented out their home, which is more like rage bait.

All that being said, it’s a shit situation for everyone mentioned. It’s a good reason in my eyes to not work till you can ‘retire’ and ‘do the big lap’ but instead change your lifestyle so you can travel and work as you go, if you want to see the country. Fuel is a finite resource, the writings been on the wall for decades that we won’t always be able to have this lifestyle.

As someone who spends a lot of time travelling around Australia going from job to job and exploring in between, I’m starting to get some real cognitive dissonance about even contemplating a trip for pleasure when there’s threats of farmers not having enough diesel. Its an ethical not financial decision for me.