Tony Abbott's work for the dole scheme doesn't add up

By Tom Allard and Anna Patty
Updated August 2 2014 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am
Useful: Jessica Samuel, 23, worked for the dole in retail and gained experience with customers. Photo: Getty Images / Cole Bennetts
Useful: Jessica Samuel, 23, worked for the dole in retail and gained experience with customers. Photo: Getty Images / Cole Bennetts

As a young minister in the Howard government, as colleagues and pundits weighed up whether he was an ideological oddity or politician of substance, Tony Abbott made his first splash by introducing work for the dole.

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