Meaning of sit-down money | Babel Free

Definitions

Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.

Australia, colloquial, informal, uncountable

Examples

“I have given you examples of some of the reforms we have already put in place which are helping young people, for example, to find jobs instead of getting sit-down money, which they got from Labor.”

“2005 February 21, Australian Broadcasting Commission, The World Today, transcript, A discussion paper being released today canvasses a number of proposals to transform the payments that have become known as ‘sit-down money’.”

“So far be it from wanting sit-down money. More and more Indigenous leaders are telling me that that is what has destroyed their society.”

“2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Café, ReadHowYouWant, Large Print 16pt, page 105, Meanwhile everyone else in your family is unemployed, getting $400 a fortnight unemployment benefit (which the Warlpiri describe as ‘sit-down money’). As soon as your $600 is in your hand, there are eight people who you are obliged to distribute it to, in the same way that you would have to distribute a kangaroo. When they get paid, they also have to share their sit-down money with each of the others.”

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