Occasionally you'll read an article that might quantify what you've been thinking or just delivers a downright practical perspective on a topic. This is one of those articles
If you're a backpacker then I highly recommend you read this post, along with the posts linked from the article.
In this Badger Bushcraft Blog article Phil Brown, Badger Bushcraft Head Instructor, revisits an article that he wrote some years ago and was published by The Bushcraft Magazine.
Instead of using sarcasm why not write a useful educational article. The thousands of grey nomads referred to are paying much needed money into the NT economy.