Facing intense pressure to lift Newstart, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack yesterday told unemployed job seekers to get off welfare and go bush for jobs:
“There are jobs out there in regional Australia, and there are good paying jobs. And what I think we do need in this country is a more mobile workforce. So people have to be prepared to move sometimes out of their comfort zone and out of their home town to the next town to take a job,” Mr McCormack told Sky News.
“There are jobs there it is just that you are not always going to get a job in the home town you have grown up in. You are not always going to get the job for the right here and now.
