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TT Host:
(video image in background reads "Bludgers"
...claimed they lived under the streets of Melbourne. They pride themselves on ripping off the welfare system.

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Reporter
isn't there clear evidence there that you are teaching people who to rout the work for the dole scheme.

Dole Army
Well, you call it rout. I call it massage.

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Host:
Well now, the dole army is crowing. They say it was all a hoax. A pack of lies designed to trick us. And you. They now say they now don't live in drains but still happily admit to being dole bludgers.

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Reporter
Don't you just give dole recipients a bad name?

Dole Army
I don't think dole bludgers could have a worse name then they already do. As far as I can see...

Reporter
So does that make it right?

Dole Army
That's irelevent.

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Host:
And this is what they said when we challenged their claims they lived in the drains.

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Reporter:
Is it just a bit of role playing here, for you?

Dole Army:
Down here?

Reporter:
Yeah

Dole Army:
No it's a way of life. A way of life that I've got used to and that I love.

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Host:
For the record, we found them on this web-site. A website which tells people how to rip off tax payers. And we believed, and still do, that it was in the public interest to expose a website which urges the unemployed to cheat the system. Now to bring that story the Dole Army demanded a small fee. A fee we were told was going to help the homeless. We now know that that was another big lie. And if their serious about wanting to help the underprivileged, we challenge the Dole Army to hand over the money to an honest charity. But somehow, I don't think the faceless people who call themselves Kookaburra, Vegemite and Possum will do the right thing.