On Life's Lottery
Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.
We like to think of Australia as the land of the ''fair go'', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by the lottery of where you are born and who you are born to. Entrenched inter-generational poverty, like the property of the wealth...
Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.
We like to think of Australia as the land of the ''fair go'', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by the lottery of where you are born and who you are born to. Entrenched inter-generational poverty, like the property of the wealth...
