The compassionate society. (Argus).(Brief Article)

The Victorian Government's laudable concern to help the "psychologically infertile" conceive is only the first step towards a fairer society for the sychologically disadvantaged, according to Councillor Len Hoxha, chair of Ghasthurst City Council's ethics and social engineering committee.

"We're already streets ahead of Bracks," boasts Hoxha, referring with pride to Ghasthurst's recent decision to offer financial subsidies to the "psychologically improvident", a group defined as "disadvantaged by their disinclination to submit to the--for them--ordeal of physical or mental labour".

Glancing at his Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, Councillor Hoxha explained that the psychologically improvident were effectively "a victim group suffering from a sense of deprivation caused by a perfectly natural revulsion to having their space invaded by bosses, time clocks and all the other pernicious paraphernalia of capitalist exploitation." Statistics showed the number of sufferers was increasing.

"Let's face it," he continued, "we're talking of damaged people here, and of showing them some compassion. They've been brought up in a world where they've been taught they have an automatic right to happiness and abundant material possessions. They've seen other people acquire these things using so-called normal physical methods of ...