What could you do less of?

In one word there is one thing I should do much less than happens. “Worry“ is the thing that has assailed my life with constancy and it is the quality that I would like to be able to dismiss from my thinking.

It seems to me, that to worry less would be good but absolutely impossible. The state of the world, the uncertainty of the future, the volatility of relationships between nations, the lack of certainty about the direction of Australia’s future, my concerns about the development of our own Northern Territory, give me cause for constant worry.

Our prime minister of Australia Anthony Albanese was recently quoted as saying that Australia was “a harmonious multicultural country“.

Mr Albanese is so wide of the mark that it’s not funny. What’s happening is people being encouraged by government to migrate to Australia at the rate of a 500,000 increase in our population each year (The excess of arrivals over departures) and the country can no longer cope.

What exacerbates the situation is the disharmony and discord elsewhere in the world, for instance what’s happening in Gaza at the moment, is inflaming relationships between Palestinians and Israelies in Australia. Antisemitism is growing and there is disquiet within our population, and that happens every time there is some sort of situation occurring elsewhere in the world, with those who have migrated from these places taking up the causes of the countries they have left.

In other words, we have a lot of people who have moved physically from where they lived to Australia, but in essence they are still living back in those places they have left behind.

And then there is the situation of where the government seems dead set on creating a divided Australia with Indigenous Australians (the First People) being given rights and entitlements beyond the rest of the people living in Australia.

Finally, while Australia apparently has a population of just around 27 million (just under 7 million when I was born in 1946), that figure is far too low. It’s more likely that we have 32 to 33,000,000 people in Australia and honestly the government doesn’t know how many people are here.

It’s these things and the deepening disquiet within the country and it’s regions that cause me to worry, and really I cannot stop being concerned.