sit-down money

noun

informal, social security benefits

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Leaders, such as Noel Pearson from Cape York, now speak of ownership, responsibility and individuality; urging indigenous people to be mainstream, mobile, acquisitive and ambitious, and to reject the so-called "sit-down money" of welfare.