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.