Dole payments


Under 30? No dole for you, says Tony

Under 30s would be banned from the dole and told to go work in mining, proposed Tony Abbott at a meeting with resource industry leaders. Is this clever, creative thinking or a simplistic way to end a skills shortage?

Brough exercises his work choices, fires 8,000 workers

Indigenous affairs Mal Brough is forcing Aboriginal people out of work in order to make them reliant on welfare. Seems strange but there is a logic at work here, albeit a perverse political one. Read on.