Sounds like a Daily Mail reader, nicht wahr? The obsession with property values, the casual racism, the little-Englander mentality. Except the ethnic group is wrong. These days, people would likely love the thought of Jews moving in next door. They’ll look after the property, mow the lawn, always make sure the car is put away and [...]
A description of what confronted a Commonwealth officer in the Northern Territory during the Pacific War (1941-5), when thousands of service personnel passed through the Northern Territory: … once you introduced a European or Asian father any child of that liaison had any rights as an Aboriginal extinguished at birth. They were not classed as [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Children, Economics, History, Society
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Tagged Australian Aborigines, crime, culture, hunter-gatherer, indigenous issues, noel pearson, policy, Stolen generations
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The title of this post reveals the Latin quip (by the Roman satirist Juvenal, in his 10th Satire, 77-81) from which Suzanne Collins derived the name of her fictional dystopian country in The Hunger Games (Legal Eagle’s review and commentary is here). It means ‘bread and circuses’ and is part of a lengthy whinge where Juvenal [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Children, Law, Literature, Popular culture, science fiction
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Tagged Ancient Rome, Juvenal, Marcus Aurelius, Martial, panem, panem et circenses, steven pinker, Suzanne Collins, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Hunger Games
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The government’s controversial Welfare Reform Bill has passed its final hurdle in the House of Lords. The bill introduces an annual cap on benefits and overhauls many payments within the welfare system. David Cameron has said it marks an historic step in the biggest welfare revolution in more than 60 years. But a report from [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Law, Personal, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged david cameron, disability, disability benefits, disability living allowance, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefit, independent living fund, parliament, social security, UK coalition government, UK politics, welfare reform bill, westminster, WRB
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February 18, 2012 – 4:00 am
Tesco has come under increasing pressure from customers to stop participating in government unemployment schemes which allow the company to take on jobseekers to stack and clean shelves for up to eight weeks without paying them. After a link to a job centre advert was posted on Twitter on Wednesday evening, appearing to show that [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Politics, Society
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Tagged benefits, boycott, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, disability living allowance, employment and support allowance, ESA, Iain Duncan Smith, Jobcentre Plus, jobseekers allowance, JSA, mandatory work activity, minimum wage, sanctions, slave labour, tesco, unemployment, work experience, work for the dole, work related activity group, workfare, WRAG
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February 1, 2012 – 12:12 pm
In The Age today there’s an article about a couple with a severely disabled child suing an IVF practitioner in negligence: Debbie and Lawrence Waller love their 11-year-old son, Keeden, but they believe he should never have been born. Just days after Mrs Waller gave birth in August 2000 following IVF treatment, Keeden suffered a [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Tort
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Tagged Cattanach v Melchior, disability, Harriton v Stephens, High Court of Australia, Keeden Waller, negligence, public policy, tort, Waller v James, welfare, welfare state, wrongful birth, wrongful life
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January 10, 2012 – 1:46 am
In an interview this weekend, PM David Cameron has revealed that he’s hoping for a new kind of fairness in the coming year. While emphasising there will be no let up in dealing with the deficit, Mr Cameron clearly wants 2012 to be different. He wants to establish a new “fairness” agenda that will, he [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Blogging, Britain, Cricket, Economics, Law, Personal, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged #spartacusreport, ATOS, david cameron, Department for Work and Pensions, employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit, welfare reform
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December 28, 2011 – 2:47 am
A CWMCARN man faces having his incapacity benefit stopped after being declared fit to work despite being registered blind and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Tony Harris, 51, of Tribute Avenue, was called for a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reassessment in November due to him claiming £199 every fortnight in incapacity benefit. Mr [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Fark!, Funnies, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Wales
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Tagged ATOS, Department for Work and Pensions, employment and support allowance, guide dogs for the blind, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefit, UK coalition government, welfare reform, work capability assessment
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December 24, 2011 – 11:55 pm
I imagine that £10 is less than even the most desperate British street-walker would accept for being screwed in this economic climate. It is however the generous “Christmas Bonus” I’ve received as a benefits claimant just days before the DWP sent me a lovely additional present in the form of a distinctive brown envelope [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Politics, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged ATOS, Department for Work and Pensions, employment and support allowance, ESA appeals, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefits, UK coalition government, welfare reform, welfare tribunals
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December 7, 2011 – 9:00 am
Thousands of seriously ill cancer patients will be forced to take medical tests and face “back to work” interviews, despite assurances from ministers that they would not make it harder for the sick to get welfare, charities have warned. Buried in a report to ministers by Prof Malcolm Harrington, the government adviser on testing welfare [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Politics
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Tagged benefits, betsy duncan smith, chemotherapy, employment and support allowance, Iain Duncan Smith, macmillan cancer relief, professor malcolm harrington, UK conservative party, UK politics, welfare reform
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