re: #633 MandyManners

Were they self-supporting?

I wouldn’t think so. The amount of Alcohol consumed by the two fathers was a concern too.

The ease at which unemployment benefits can be obtained in Australia and kept is astonishing. You could leave school at 17 or 18 and not work a day in your life and pick up an old age pension at 65. Crazy. And Australia still has one of the highest standards of living in the world.