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.

I get what you’re saying.

To my mind, life saving is an emergancy situation which implies immediate action to keep someone alive.

This is definitely a surgery that impacts peoples lives, and one that has a time frame, but If can’t get an abortion at one clinic it’s unlikely you will just… die… before you organise an appointment somewhere else.

You can’t compare an abortion to… say a premature birth. They are opposite ends of the spectrum. Both are important things that people need access to, but both aren’t life saving.

It sucks, it’s backward saying you won’t do it, but it’s quite literally the opposite of life saving.