How they look after society's poorest during hard times is one of the tests of fairness which will help pull us through in hard times.
He said: "The provision of an exceptional fund for just cancer medicines made no sense with respect to much greater financing needs for radiotherapy and surgery, which are the primary methods of cancer control and cure, thus failing tests of fairness.
Stung by the near-universal verdict that his budget fails the fundamental tests of fairness and decency, Joe Hockey took to the lectern at the Sydney Institute earlier this month to wax lyrical about the need to end the so-called age of entitlement.
While it is superficially attractive, an additional tax on graduates fails both the tests of fairness and deficit reduction," he has written in an e-mail sent to Liberal Democrat and Conservative members.
But Labour said this approach "failed" the twin tests of fairness and simplicity and it was considering a series of wide price bands to avoid the need for detailed annual valuations.
Gov. Jay Nixon signed the legislation last month, saying that when "the practices of municipal courts fail the basic tests of fairness and equality -- those failings reflect on our entire judicial system".
