Last week a little three year old girl presented me with a cup cake from a tray she had made for her grandmothers birthday. I said “That’s great, why don’t you make batch for your kinder?”

Boy am I out of touch with this new world order of ours!

Her parents instantly corrected me saying that it was now not possible to do such without a food preparation certificate, and also that they needed a police check and working with children licence if they wished to attend the kinder and help out in any way.

I work as marine area volunteer, and have a current original project seeking to help disabled children experience the water, snorkeling, canoeing and just being wheeled through it in special plastic chairs. The insurance and similar un natural hurdles, have almost extinguished any hope of me helping them.

How much have we lost in Australia, due to this ridiculous litigious and bureaucratic situation that has a risen?

Time to do a few things it seems. It’s time perhaps to have the Federal Government take over and simplify such Not For Profit group insurances, and to bring back  a sensible level of self responsibility for us all.