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Lil Skater, life is a sea of unfairness and injustice, and if you get worked up about it all, you'll blow a gasket before you're 30. :D Don't let the b@stards get you down, as they say. GP

Well that one particular bloke was being funded by the parent benefit, but most I've known of haven't been. Typically they do work for periods of time, often in a field related to their passion, and usually just long enough to save up for their next expedition. They get very good at living off...

I guess it depends on your idea of "better off". From a wealth point of view, there's nothing like motivation, determination, and having goals to get you to this better-off place. Dependency, lack of focus, and indecision are the killers. However, for some, presumably like that bloke, better...

I met someone many years ago, a middle-aged bloke camping on Dunk Island, who made a career out of living off Centrelink (although they weren't called that then). He had a teenage daughter, which entitled him to some parent benefit, and then just travelled around to places and in a manner that...

I think that would depend on the quality of the work the mentally-challenged person was able to do. Like everyone else, if the person can expect more than is being offered given their abilities, then they're free to go elsewhere. However, if the person is so mentally challenged that they don't...

Or at least no place in Australia. That's why so much labour-intensive industry has been lost to other countries, like China, Vietnam, and Korea. If the alternative is not working at all, because no one is willing to employ them for more than that, then yes, it's good. If I was that person and...

To the older generations at least, culture can be everything. That's why immigrants have a tendency to form cultural communities and deal mainly within them. Sure, their children born and raised in Australia tend to assimilate much better, but even then the bulk of their friends are often from...