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26four scenario worldssea. Most of us around here are sticking together andwatching out for each other as best we can.This tends to put opportunistic outsiders off fromcoming into our neighbourhood, but people are stillhaving food stolen from their gardens at night andanyone that walks down the street with a sandwich oreven an apple in plain sight is asking for trouble.The schools have got it pretty bad too. My kids are atthe local high school, which used to be a pretty goodschool when I was a kid. Now it’s practically undersiege from immigrant parents trying to get their kidsenrolled and from the local kids trying to steal things.Some days it feels more like Gaza than FerntreeGully with tribes from the other schools ram raidingclassrooms to steal vital supplies and intimidate theteachers and the kids.My view is that we should just give up with thepoliticians and get on with it ourselves. You know,we’ll make our own water, grow our own food andgenerally look after ourselves and our own kind.The other choice for me, I guess, would be to takethe family way north and try and live off the landsomehow. At least they get decent rain up there.I read a magazine only last week that was talking abouthow some of the indigenous communities are runningcamps to teach us city folks how to survive in the bush.Pretty funny that – I mean we’ve been ignoring themfor years and now all of a sudden they’re ourbest mates.What is the government doing about all this? Well tobe fair (which is very difficult, believe me) I guess theyhave got quite a bit on their plate these days. You’ve gotthe wave of migrants coming down from China andIndonesia to contend with. In theory, Australia issupposed to be ringed by a giant electronic fence tokeep them all out. These people are persistent thoughand they keep getting through somehow. Anyway,fencing our coastline was a stupid idea. I know it wasoriginally meant to be an employment generator –something to take a bloke’s mind off things – but howdo they honestly expect us to keep off the beaches inthese temperatures?They say that the new desalination plants along theGreat Ocean Road are going to sort the water problemout. They also keep saying that our schools are going tobe properly resourced and made safe but they say thesethings every year. The big companies say much thesame thing and also promise the earth but let’s face thefacts, it was big business aided by politicians that gotus into this whole mess in the first place so why shouldwe trust them to sort it all out?
27HEADING HEREtroubledfear pessimisticintolerantbesiegedgated communitiesharsh climatefocus on subsistenceflood of immigrantsracial tension recessionfood as currencycrumbling societyscarcity of jobs / resourcespandemicsschools ashavens
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