There’s a discussion bubbling away online about whether our major supermarkets are using “meat glue” to piece together steaks from offcuts. Someone posted a video of their eye fillet falling apart in the pan, and naturally, the internet did what it does best: jumped to the most dramatic conclusion possible.

Look, I get it. The relationship between Australian consumers and Colesworth has become increasingly strained. When you’re paying premium prices for what should be quality products, only to have them fall short of expectations, suspicion is a natural response. But sometimes a dodgy steak is just a dodgy steak, not evidence of a grand conspiracy.

I came across a post the other day that stopped me mid-scroll. Someone had stayed up all night cleaning their room – something they hadn’t properly tackled in years – and they were buzzing with pride about it. Their sister had helped move furniture, and the transformation had them feeling like a weight had been lifted off their shoulders.

There’s something deeply relatable about that feeling, isn’t there? We’ve all been there – that moment when you finally tackle the thing you’ve been avoiding, and suddenly you can breathe again.

There’s a photo doing the rounds comparing the West Gate Freeway approach in 2004 versus today, and honestly, it’s sparked some interesting reflections about what we’ve actually achieved in two decades of infrastructure development. The punchline? Still just four lanes heading onto the Bridge itself, even with all the fancy new tunnel work.

Now, before anyone jumps down my throat, I’m not saying the West Gate Tunnel project was a complete waste. Far from it, actually. But there’s something deeply frustrating about spending billions on infrastructure that, at its core, still has the same fundamental bottleneck it had twenty years ago.