Two generations of one family on the news of the day

Bert Jnr (left) and Bert Snr
We're a father and son from Perth, Western Australia, and we share more than a name. We're both Herbert Edwin Yates, a name that has been handed down through generations of our family, so here we're Bert Snr and Bert Jnr.
We talk about the news all the time, and we nearly always agree. Yates Views is where we write those conversations down, each in our own words.
Everything on this site is opinion, not news reporting. Each piece is the view of the person who wrote it.