Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

What I can confirm to the shadow minister is that this government has, from the word go, started repairing the mess that this Labor Party left for us. We've had to make some tough decisions. You were so, so desperate when you were last in government that you put 80,000 single mothers onto Newstart. What we want to do is make sure we don't have to do that again. So what are we doing?

When it comes to welfare, we're making sure we're creating 1,100 jobs a day. That means that people will go off welfare and into work. We all know that that is the best thing that we can do for people.

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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