The promotion of virtue and the eradication of vice:
The conservative Catholic archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, has
proposed a punitive tax on divorcees, taxation benefits for married
couples and linking old-age pensions to number of children produced.
That will teach those inconsiderate non-breeders. Moderate religious
leaders have distanced themselves from Pell's hard line. He may, however,
have the Prime Minister's ear (Little Johnny is rather inclined towards
legislating morality; witness his purging of moderates from the Drug War Council and his push to outlaw fertility treatment for unmarried women, for example),
though whether he could push this through parliament right now is another story.