I think I wasn't clear enough. By making transport and movement accessible you can get that mix. I went to high school in a low socio-economic area and most of

I think I wasn't clear enough. By making transport and movement accessible you can get that mix. I went to high school in a low socio-economic area and most of my school friends (myself included) were parents by 21 or younger. Most still live on the fringes of Sydney and don't get to mix with opportunities. Last night was a mix like that, people like me who were lucky enough to get the opportunities to move up (and driven enough to take them when they appeared) and many who didn't. I was able to offer two people last night referrals to opportunities they wouldn't have otherwise had. All because transport became easier. I'm pretty far left, I think public transport should be free for anyone earning less than lets say $50,000pa, I think that entry to cultural institutions should likewise be free for the same demographic. The idea that some of my high school peers have never seen a play or gone to the museum because the cost is too high upsets me. I have very vivid memories of the anger & shame I felt when my power was cut off because I couldn't pay the bill with a child under 6 months in the house. I couldn't pay the bill because I hadn't received my unemployment benefit that fortnight, because I couldn't afford the $2.50 for a bus into town to hand in my compulsory forms. I didn't have a job because I was still very much in the youthful stage of my life when I thought everyone should accept me for the way I am, instead of to paraphrase George Thorogood, getting a hair cut and getting any job. In the last month I've been binge reading books on closing the gaps such as Richard Florida's new book "The New Urban Crisis", "How Children Succeed" by Paul Tough, "Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it" by Ian Leslie and more. I acknowledge there is no silver bullet that makes everything better. But there are a lot of things that could be changed to make things easier. There are also a lot of things we just don't know, and to be sure a lot of unintended consequences for the changes we are trying to make now.