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In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits 680

Posted by Soulskill from the get-healthy-or-else dept.
An anonymous reader writes with news of a plan from the Australian government to cut down on the number of kids who aren't vaccinated. The new scheme will deny family tax benefits to parents whose children don't pass immunization checks. Quoting: "The FTB supplement, worth $726 per child each year, will now only be paid once a child is fully immunized at these checks. Families are already required to have their child fully immunized to receive Child Care Benefit and the Child Care Rebate. Children will also be required for the first time to be vaccinated against meningococcal C, pneumococcal and chicken pox. Children will also be immunized against measles, mumps and rubella earlier, at 18 months instead of the current four years of age."
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Journal Journal: A disturbing trend ... 6

Journal by tomhudson

I can't help but notice that the majority of IT jobs locally now ask for either no experience, 1 year, or 3 years. It looks like the movement of head offices to the rest of the country (along with the good jobs), which started 40 years ago, is now pretty much complete, leaving only the crappiest of the crappy jobs.

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Submission + - Boot Linux in your browser

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in Javascript. You can now boot Linux in your browser provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work).

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