Australia should learn from Brexit Britain, not copy its mean-spirited welfare policies | Kate Lyons

We can walk the same brutal road Britain has and end up where they are or take a warning from their example

There’s a news story that may have passed you by last week with the botched egging and backfiring front-page attacks on mothers, but it’s one we ignore at our national peril.

It’s a story by my colleague, Luke Henrique-Gomes, about a Melbourne man who died from bowel cancer while waiting for his disability support pension claim to be approved.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VDtLwt