Social security cuts seem all toughness and no love

By Ross Gittins
Updated December 7 2017 - 9:53pm, first published 9:48pm

Remember the Turnbull government's plans to drug test people on the dole? While you and I are diverted by all the political game-playing in this week's last session of parliament for the year, the government is hoping to slip these and other mean-spirited cuts in social security through the Senate - probably after some deal with the Xenophon-less Xenophones.

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