Tonight I feel disquiet about the way the world is heading and feel more insecure and apprehensive about the future than I have for a long time.

I feel that we are on the edge of catastrophe.

Be it at a local level, territory level, Australian level, regional level, or on the global front, it seems to me that more and more is going wrong and less and less is turning out right.

Not only are we afflicted by an increasing number of man-made disasters and tragedies, but it seems that environmental factors are evermore against us.

I confess to feeling a deepening level of apprehensiveness and despondency, that has not overcome me to this extent for a long period.