All that conceded, the image of the First Lady of the Realm of a radical, revolutionary regime taking plum choice of occupied land, with its luxurious estate, did not quite square up to equitable re-distribution of this precious commodity.
The basic distinction between legal and equitable ownership is quite simple.
While creating big, anthemic ads celebrating diversity may be en vogue, doing the hard work of actually making the industry more equitable is not quite as fashionable.
The Gonski report indicated what people working in public education had known for some time – that the current government funding model is not equitable, and will have quite grievous consequences for Australia: everything from economic to social to class ramifications.
Stuart Bayliss, at specialist IFA firm Annuity Direct, says some policyholders could be in line for a substantial windfall: "Quite a lot of these people leaving Equitable had sizeable funds".
Its interest lies in the quite different limits it places on the notion of equitable access and because of the quite different underlying view of health care and distributive justice.
"With prices soaring, the home becomes such a big part of the net worth, so unless people have quite a lot of other money, you can't do equitable distribution without selling the apartment because there is nothing left to divide," said Eleanor Breitel Alter, who heads the matrimonial department at the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman.
In 10 years, work and jobs will look quite different from today, in a very good way, a more equitable, free and efficient way.
The European legislation has, in a parallel fashion, dressed the contours of farm-saved seed quite restrictively, and especially conditioned the farmers' privilege to the payment of "an equitable remuneration sensibly lower than the amount charged for the licensed production of propagating material" in Article 14 of EC Regulation 2100/94 on Community Plant Variety Rights.
While this "fair and frugal" diet was designed to be nutritionally sufficient in terms of calorie and protein supply, it would require equitable distribution of food in order to avoid malnutrition and imply a quite significant reduction in terms of calorie supply as well as consumption of animal products in some parts of the world.
