sit-down money

Noun

 * 1)  Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.
 * 2) * 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’.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.