Quote:Minister riles welfare groups
Date
January 2, 2013
FAMILIES Minister Jenny Macklin has angered welfare groups by claiming she could live on the $35-a-day Newstart allowance.
On a day when more than 80,000 single parents were shifted from the parenting payment to the lower Newstart allowance, leaving some up to $110 a week worse off, Ms Macklin also urged single parents to return to work, saying it would be ''better for the family'', and their children would have better role models if they were employed.
f.cken macklin is an idiot living in an ivory tower
The dole wouldn't even pay the rent these days thanks to labor inflating a property bubble and someone who has been out of work for years is not going to get a job in an instant
labor made their rents at least $100 a week more expensive with their stimulus property ponzi scam, triple first home buyers scam, land banking scams, negative gearing scams, changes in foreign investment which allowed wealthy chinese to come in and outbid locals at auctions
All strategies designed to pump up the price of property and increase rents as property hoarders and tenants offloaded the increasing risk onto the unsuspecting tenant !!
Well done labor
Sometimes I don't know which is worse. Labor or Liberal ?