Senate debates

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Questions without Notice

Indigenous Employment

2:46 pm

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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In the last census, Aboriginal unemployment was given at over 20 per cent. Warren Mundine has said:

… allowing people to languish on welfare and dismissing them as being unable to work is not treating them with dignity

When will the government restore their dignity and allow them to enter the workforce under terms and conditions which suit them?

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