I've lived and worked in many countries 18 and 19 counting Oz. Where I have lived for over 40 years too and these days drivers are impatient and suffer from immaturity and believe they have a God given right to speed and run anyone who is in their way off the road particularly elderly drivers.

That is the agenda that has been quietly spread over the last 15 or 20 years. Started off with the Gov of the Reserve Bank saying that the baby boomers and elderly were either stopping first home owners buying a house or spending their childrens inheritance on going nomad etc and then the road campaign to get them off the roads started too.

Myself I am of the opinion that if these kids want a home work for it as we did - save for a deposit and go without.

Instead they get handouts and still whinge that they cant find a home when it is a bit more of skilled workers coming in as well as refugees and lately boat people takin gup housing either buying renting or taking the public housing off the population who paid for it in income taxes or their parents did.

It is all part and parcel of leading up maybe to the Greens desire to kill us all off at 65 grab our assets and of course make sure they have a way out for themselves. This lot today in Parliament who once were for the working man would go along with this if it meant keeping government methinks as Juliar in particular has no time for those not working as she has made plain and also not time for married folk either not having even been blessed or maybe asked who know rofl....

Well we have lost our way when our PM once had to be married and in a stable relationship with children or better still grand children an added bonus to occupy the office and now we have a unmarried lady living in sin - big change and not a word from the usual suspects.

Yep so elderly is new target for blame.

I think also the truth is the examiners need to be tested  maybe to keep them up to scratch or it is the truth that many drive today who never took a test as said on TV and many of those who are tested on the TV have bad habits.

BigVal: "It is all part and parcel of leading up maybe to the Greens desire to kill us all off at 65 grab our assets and of course make sure they have a way out for themselves. This lot today in Parliament who once were for the working man would go along with this if it meant keeping government methinks as Juliar in particular has no time for those not working as she has made plain and also not time for married folk either not having even been blessed or maybe asked who know rofl....

Well we have lost our way when our PM once had to be married and in a stable relationship with children or better still grand children an added bonus to occupy the office and now we have a unmarried lady living in sin - big change and not a word from the usual suspects."

Yep so elderly is new target for blame.

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One council, can't remember which, put forward a proposition, whereby all we useless elderly people who paid for our three bedroom houses with lovely gardens front and back, should move out, into God knows what, and let young people buy our homes.

So, BigVal, you're not far from the truth.

An elderly relative in her late eighties told us how she was admonished by a woman council clerk for owning a house. 

She had rung to find out about paying her rates weekly now that she was finding it difficult to budget. Se had been living independently for years after her husband died, but inflation had finally seen her sell off everything but the family home.

Thinking she had to offer an explanation for her request for different payment the elderly lady admitted she was a bit short of money, which immediately resulted in the sharp rebuke from the council official that she shouldn't be living alone in such a big house anyway, others had to pay rent.

My wife enquired if she would report the rudeness, knowing she probably wouldn't because she would never say ill of anyone.  The reply was that she had been so flooded with the memories and sadness for family members past that she for a moment forgotten why she had called and was summarily disconnected with the parting shot that the information was in her last rates account and on the internet. 

There is no way that could have happened thirty, fourty years ago.

That is truley discusting Nautilus