Bob Day (SA, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Abetz. I refer to the statement by the Prime Minister on 28 May 2014 when he said, 'People are more than capable of making decisions based on what is best for them,' and also to the statement by the Minister for Social Services when he said, 'The best form of welfare is a job.' If both those statements are true, why then can a person over the age of 18 in my home state of South Australia get married, have children, drive a motor vehicle, fly an aeroplane, buy a house, take out a mortgage, enter into a mobile phone contract, travel to some of the most dangerous places on earth, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, enlisted in the armed forces and shoot enemy combatants, and of course vote but not enter into an employment arrangement which, to again quote the Prime Minister, 'is best for them'?