Quotes About Work for the Dole

It's not surprising that the Rudd Government is slowly turning Work for the Dole into a training program. The idea that 'the world owes people a living' is strong inside the Labor Party. This is why even a normally sensible frontbencher like Martin Ferguson once called Work for the Dole 'almost evil'.

This champion of self-reliance, the man who made the unemployed work for the dole, has no doubt that families like his deserve a great deal of help from the government.