• After nearly six weeks travelling through the US Mid-West, Toronto and three cities of Argentina's interior, I've realised – or rather been reminded – that everything is relative. The challenges that Australia faces, grave as they are, need to be put into perspective.

  • “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” These famous opening words from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities sums up how I am feeling after a week and a half in the Midwest of the United States: a week in Chicago and three days in Milwaukee.