Although I am not exactly sure who, I expect it was a very wise person who once said that things are never as bad or as good as they seem. I take heart from this because we live at a time when almost everything seems to be in or on the verge of a crisis. Take health. Although one of the best and most well funded in the world, to my knowledge people have been describing Australia's health system as "in crisis" for at least 20 years. It is true that many people are not able to access the same level of medical treatment as readily as others because of their ethnicity, income, geographical location or some other factor and that this is a situation which needs to be remedied. But we might at least stop to wonder how something can be in a perpetual state of "crisis" and whether it is accurate to describe it this way
