Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Minister for Workforce Participation) Share this | Hansard source

Ignored. Put simply, Labor ran up the white flag and left them stranded. Remember, it was the minister for employment—the current Leader of the Opposition—who also dismissed unemployed 55-year-olds and said, ‘Put them on the old age pension.’ What a disgrace! So Labor had no plan to help the unemployed then; they have no policy now. The John Howard government has revolutionised the way we help the unemployed into work.

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