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    7 months ago

    Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison parroted this a 2019, as a way to deny an increase in welfare payments:

    “The best form of welfare is a job.”

    At that time, roughly 540000 welfare recipients in Australia were long-term unemployed, as in they’d been unable to find employment in at least 12 months.