'Out on flatlands shone fields of gold. Crops of canola are a glad sight any time, but right now the mere right to travel to see them shining has the ability to send the mood soaring.'
Sitting out on the balcony, the evening sliding across the harbour beneath a lavender sky, I had a beer. Every cold bubble sprang on my tongue as if it were the first.
Only a bit over a week ago I experienced an unanticipated cheerfulness to see locals sitting outside a favoured cafe, sipping coffee and nibbling cake, where for months they had shuffled in masked lines for takeaway.Freed from the long edict that there were but four reasons to leave home, I took a long motorcycle ride.
There are those who want to believe that freedom means the right to do as you please. It’s always been a seductive idea. It drove a flower-powered movement in the late 1960s that was a whole lot of fun while it lasted.I was a cadet journalist in 1970 when the state of Victoria became the first in the world to legislate the compulsory wearing of seatbelts.
Freedom to ride in a car without a seatbelt was judged to be subservient to the effort to save lives and ease pressure on the health system.Age archive
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