GILLARD KEEPS DOLE/AUSTUDY BELOW PENSION

The dole remains at below the poverty level and the jobless received no one off increase in it from cash bonus as part of the GFC bonus payments under Rudd PM. Even students on Austudy got $950 cash bonus. Meanwhile youth unemployment is being disguised under the ALP Earn or Learn policy - where they are being forced to do full time short courses that often won't help then get a job.