Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981

[Introduction]

It has often been maintained that whenever you have a system of means-testing you will inevitably also have a range of anomalies. This is because means testing is essentially an arbitrary procedure invariably implemented by people whose value judgements can often differ from those who are being tested.

Drawing of protest signs in front of tall buildings

(This casual connection between means-testing and anomalies is more than evident in the experience of the Supplementary Hardship Grant (SHG) in 1980.)