IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact
“It’s something I aspire to,” he said.
“A brighter, more sustainable future for me and the planet. But first, I need to make some money.”
The road Mike Greenhauer is on is long.
It starts at the Betoota Ponds postal distribution depot and it finished somewhere in the leafy cul-de-sacs of Betoota Grove.
The 26-year-old unionised forklift driver hopes that one day he hopes the biggest worry in his life will be the environment.
“Right now, it’s job security and housing affordability that I’m most worried about,” he said.
“Then I guess it’d be wage growth and interest rates. But yeah, one day I’d like to be carefree enough to vote for the Greens,”
“Rich enough, too.”
Mr Greenhaur understands that on his journey from the bottom to the top, he might even have to start voting Liberal when he becomes a small-business-owning home-owner and elects to manage his own super fund.
“It’s part and parcel of growing up,” he said.
“Maybe I might even start worrying about immigration and people being disrespectful in general.”
Once his house is paid off and it’s worth many hundreds of thousands more than what he bought it for – and he’s essentially able to live off the franking credits his share portfolio is gear toward exploiting.
“But I will mellow in my middle age,” he conceded.
“The guilt of being who I am will end up crushing me. Like the Tell-Tale Heart beating under the floorboards of my renovated French Quarter terrace house! The shame and heartbreak of being successful will overwhelm me I know,”
“But it’ll all wash away when I cast my vote for the greens. Even though they’re the most divided and toothless major party, I don’t care. The environment is too important,”
“I look forward to that day.”
More to come.
