Portsea

As you probably know more than anyone, Brendan, that Mornington Peninsula has probably got one of the biggest contingency of homeless people.

sleeping rough and not many people know that and particularly what annoys me because everyone thinks Suriname and Portsea is such an affluent area that they don't need help but they do need help because I'm trying to do a fundraiser with the Screaming Eagles on October 4th, specifically for the homeless, and

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support of Southern Peninsula, because they've had their funding cut, which I think is ridiculous, because all the politicians talk up about the homeless and something needs to be done, and here's a small community to do such a great job Yeah, they're opening up a space program and everything like that.

Great to have you on.

Matt in Portsea.

Hello, Matt.

Morning, guys.

Come back and wrap it up with, uh, Steve Grumpy Collins, traveler, stevecollinstraveler.com, regular contributor, Australia Overnight.

I thought the caller said, uh, Portsea, uh, but you heard Lorne.

Yeah.

Uh, it's definitely Portsea is where, uh, Harold Holt, uh, disappeared.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Let's have fun with that, right? Um, and you know, the legal industry is one of the last bastions of, you know, massive privilege in this country.

So, you know, if you can play with notions of, you know, who gets to be rich and who gets to have the Portsea beach house and who gets to have the massive artwork that doesn't make any sense in the foyer of the really big building, The Graduate takes a lot of that stuff down.

Okay, so, uh, what this trope kind of means, I guess, um, in a modern context is in the past, you know, obviously it was, it was stranger danger.

It was someone who's external to your environment.

And one year of my life, my marriage was over.

Lost my house in Portsea, my house in Toorak, and really everything seemed to be gone.

So that was sort of a big curve ball, really.

And out of that came, I suppose, for me, an opportunity to really redefine myself, to take control of my life, uh, to take my life back and to start wearing the shoes that I chose for myself, and not the shoes that someone else had chosen for me.