Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

They should never, ever be the master of the people. The trouble with members opposite is that they are no longer a working-class party; they are a welfare-class party. That is the problem. That is the measure of the decline of the once great Labor Party. They would rather see people stuck in the welfare system than helped by government to get the jobs that will liberate them for the rest of their life.

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