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Just at the breakfast table in our hotel, my son and I quietly munching on all the best things

We’re 80 floors up

360 views of Melbourne all around us

Quite incredible seeing the City from up here the past few days

It really gets me thinking

In spite of the clear trend towards big government, over-regulation, too much market intervention, and socialist principles, all of which I am very concerned about in Australia longer-term, and all of which I believe are a handbrake on productivity

The ability of humans to create, meet, trade, build, manage, grow, and flourish, is a miracle

From here you can see trains, planes, boats, buses, cars, motorbikes, and bikes

Roads, a port, an airport, a harbour, bridges, sky scrapers, suburbia, high streets, parks, and sports stadiums

Collaboration, at scale, of self-interested economic actors, building on a set of shared ethics, laws, of which clearly the most important is the bastion of private property

And in lies the key

The right to private property

Which is something that we have to work for, to cherish, to value, educate on, understand, and advocate forever for

People just haven’t dug into what it means

Why it’s important

Indeed, I feel I’ve only just scratched the surface

So cheers to ingenuity, to trade, to entrepreneurship, and the human endeavour

Let’s keep building!

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