Carl D wrote Today at 10:12am:
Honestly - if I see or hear the expression "un-Australian" again I think I am going to puke.
In today's The West Australian, Chris Bowen describes hoarding fuel and trying to sell it online at inflated prices as "un-Australian".
Newsflash for you, Chris. This behaviour is "100% Australian" these days (as we saw with toilet paper 6 years ago) but I'm pretty sure you already know this.
And, we see it on a daily basis with grocery prices, house prices, rents, etc., etc..
"Me, me, me". "Gimme, gimme, gimme". "Greed, greed, greed". "I'm alright, Jack and stuff everyone else" is all people think about these days.
Mind you, because we're members of the animal kingdom the "survival of the fittest" urge takes over especially in a crisis so I guess it's not really our fault entirely even though we claim to be much more intelligent (which I doubt). Can't fight Mother Nature, I suppose?
It's taken me a long, long time (I've always gone through life looking for the best in people and believing everyone cares) but I've finally realised that when it comes to the crunch nobody gives a sh!t about anyone else but themselves.
This realisation has been reinforced for me during the past few years when I had to take care of my elderly aunt with little or no help from anyone else up until the time she went into Aged Care last July.
Disgraceful stuff.
Yes, I've come to the same, sad realization

And similarly, nobody helped me with my parents in the last stages of their lives.
Everybody's too busy having a fantastic life on social media.