sit-down money

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   Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid…

   Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.

   • I have given you examples of some of the reforms we have already put in place which are helping young people, for example, to find jobs instead of getting sit-down money, which they got from Labor.
   • 2005 February 21, Australian Broadcasting Commission, The World Today, transcript, A discussion paper being released today canvasses a number of proposals to transform the payments that have become known as ‘sit-down money’.
   • So far be it from wanting sit-down money. More and more Indigenous leaders are telling me that that is what has destroyed their society.

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