Australia is becoming top-heavy with people and very much under the pump regarding organisations and infrastructure needed to support these vast numbers.

Population pressures are contributing to a lack of housing, a lack of employment opportunities and a lack of satisfaction with life.

People’s pressure contributes to parents having no time to bring their children up in a proper family context, making far too many children feel detached from the vital family aspect that was so much a part of life in the past times.

At one end of the age spectrum, there are growing numbers of essentially unloved – and unwanted – children beyond the brief bubble of parenthood bliss.

On the other hand, there are increasing numbers of aged persons for whom life has become a day-by-day challenge.

Many of these, I believe – as a 79-year-old man myself and seeing what is going on in the aged care domain – cannot wait until blessedly relieved of life by their passing.