John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, my answer is about the minimum wage that a million Australians received in the early 1990s and that minimum wage was the dole. That is very relevant to the policies of this government. Unlike the Labor Party, we do not regard somebody who, in the height of a recession induced by failed policies, cannot get a job as being on the scrapheap.

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