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Isn't this basically a return to "the only people who can vote are property owners over the age of 30", except this time it's gender neutral? At least the prosocial things you list, are generally attained with age, so it should work out to be fairly similar.
Somewhat. The specific criteria in this future Australia were:
In one's own thought experiment, one could change these in many different ways to nudge society in his or her preferred direction. A system with these levers would, in theory, result in a society of educated, well-traveled Christian families. If you want a non-Christian or irreligious society, you could take that out; if you wanted a more service-oriented society you could add one for time served in some sort of charitable organization; and so on. I appreciate that the system in In the Wet has at least a pretty good level of fairness, in that one's birth has not too much impact: in the fictional Australia of the book social mobility is given as being quite high, so achieving a high income is possible for many; any healthy person may join the military; and so forth.
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