"As an Aboriginal man, I've seen too many of my people dying at a very early age. "White people are living longer because they haven't lost what we have lost. In a statement after the judgment was delivered, Uncle Dennis said he was "frustrated with this white system". "Each enjoys the right to the pension (subject to meeting payability criteria) for as long as he lives and thus as long as he needs it." Elder says pension rules 'not a system of the land' "Based on the statistics, a randomly selected Aboriginal man will probably qualify for the pension for a shorter period than a randomly selected non-Aboriginal man of the same age. "The social security system as a whole would not treat members of all races with equal dignity and respect if it provided members of a particular race with more limited access to the age pension than others," the judges said. The judges said the age pension was not designed to provide support for a specific number of years or to pay out a certain amount of money - instead, it was meant to prevent people from falling into poverty during old age.
#Average digit span by age full#
Today, a full bench of the Federal Court ruled the current system did not breach the Racial Discrimination Act. Uncle Dennis, who was born in Queensland but has spent the past three decades in Melbourne, was 64 at the time he launched the legal case in 2021. In contrast, 65-year-old non-Indigenous males had an average life expectancy of an extra 19 years.įor 65-year-old females, the data showed an average Indigenous woman lived a further 17.1 years, compared to 20.8 years for someone who was non-Indigenous. His lawyers relied on Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures that showed if Indigenous males reached the age of 65, they lived on average for a further 15.8 years. Uncle Dennis's legal team argued the current laws discriminated against Indigenous people, because they had less time to enjoy their pension due to the gap in average life expectancy compared with other Australians. Today, five judges of the court dismissed a legal bid by Wakka Wakka man Dennis James Fisher to access his pension at the age of 64, instead of at 67. Indigenous Australians have shorter life expectancies and encounter "unacceptable differences in health", the Federal Court says, but that does not entitle them to receive the age pension earlier than others. In short: The Federal Court has rejected an Aboriginal elder's bid to access the age pension early.Preliminary findings indicate that cutoff scores of ≤6 and ≤7 on RDS are not appropriate in adults with epilepsy, especially in individuals with low average IQ or below. Preliminary results suggest that an RDS cutoff score of ≤4 may be more appropriate in a clinically referred adult epilepsy population with a low average IQ or lower. Given the less than ideal specificity rate associated with each of these cutoff scores, together with their strong association to cognitive factors, secondary analyses were conducted to identify more optimal cutoff scores. Findings also revealed that RDS scores were positively related to attention and intellectual functioning. Previously established cutoff scores of ≤6 and ≤7 on RDS yielded a specificity rate of 85% and 77% respectively.
#Average digit span by age trial#
Most participants (98%) passed Trial 2 of the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM), achieving a score of ≥45. Sixty-three clinically referred adults with a diagnosis of epilepsy or suspected seizures were administered the Digit Span subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-III or WAIS-IV). This investigation aims to determine whether these previously established RDS cutoff scores could detect suboptimal effort in adults with epilepsy. Prior research has shown that cutoff scores of ≤6 or ≤7 on Reliable Digit Span (RDS) can detect suboptimal effort across numerous adult clinical populations however, these scores have not been validated for that purpose in an adult epilepsy population. Assessment of performance validity is a necessary component of any neuropsychological evaluation.
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