Wayne Swan still has a job to do on welfare
Sep 23rd, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: AustraliaThe Australian: Almost 100,000 higher-income families were removed from the middle welfare drip by Wayne Swan’s first budget.
But Labor’s policy to means test the baby bonus and other family payments merely returned the total number of middle-class welfare recipients to the level that existed in 2004, before the China-led resources boom.