The Women We Can't Afford to Forget

Yeah, something really deeply profound in what you just said there.

I think, you know, the elders of the village, you know, male and female, but, you know, it's almost we've just pushed them to the edge and you said that, you know, being excluded from society a lot of aspects of society generally, and we are lacking, you know, to your point, we're lacking that.

We're lacking the wisdom of elders.

We're lacking that sense of culture that's handed down, sense of place.

And, you know, as a result, we're caught up in social media and the fake world, whereas we really do need to reconnect with people who've lived and have lived experience and, you know, can pass on stories and culture and those sort of things that keep us grounded and human.

So I absolutely resonate with that.

Why is this not front page of the paper? Why is this not on the headline all the time? Is there a gap in the, why is it not more of a popular, you know, popular topics, not the right word, but why is it under-recognized? Because it sounds, when you talk about it, it sounds like something that happens overseas.

That doesn't sound like Australia to me, not the Australia I grew up in.

But it's

clearly the case, you know, I mean, housing is so ridiculously unaffordable here now, but why is it not on the top of the media cycle?

You know what is on the top of the media cycle? All the things that are happening with property right now.

So, you know, talk about capital gains tax and the Labour Party saying they're going to, you know, scrap the discount and scrap the negative gearing.

And there's a lot of talk about that.

There's a lot of talk about housing unaffordability and what that means for young people getting onto the market and, you know, what that means for renters.

So there's a lot of that, but this just seems like such a small part of the conversation.

And I just don't think that anybody, I mean, it's not that it's not been talked about, but just in terms of the airtime that I think it deserves, I just don't think that it's there.

And I wonder again, if that's more of a, systemic issue.

Not something I've really, really thought about, but as you've asked me the question, I'm just thinking, yeah, why isn't this front page news? Because it's so appalling.

And also at the same time, you alluded to we're all on social media and comparing ourselves and their life is better than mine.

I just don't think anybody's got the time.

In my opinion, a lot of things problems like this if they hit people as being too hard there's nothing I can do they tend to stay as well there's nothing I can do I'm not going to do anything you know that seems to be and that's one of the theories around the parents of questions campaign at the time was here's something we can all do you know we gave people tools to do it What can be done? What are you doing about it? Let's talk about some of the solutions.