Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Unlike members opposite, who want to trap people in welfare, we want to encourage people to move into work, because we understand what decent Labor leaders understood—what decent Labor leaders like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating and what intelligent Labour prime ministers around the world like Tony Blair understood: that the best form of welfare is work. That is the difference. We want to encourage people into work. Members opposite want to trap people in welfare because members opposite just hate aspiration. They just cannot handle the decent people of our country who want to have a go and want to get ahead. We understand that the best way to give the people of this country a fair go is to enable more of them to have a go, and that is exactly what our budget does.

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