I agree with Hasbeen's suggestions, and wonder if some recipients could also participate in useful capacity with various volunteer organisations like the Smith Family, Vinnies or Landcare groups, or with various youth groups designed to foster education, sports and possibly basic hand skills such as carpentry, auto maintenance, car detailing, spray painting or welding, house-painting, carpet-laying, and such, or horticulture, bee-keeping, fish breeding and maintenance, etc. There may be many possibilities, mostly designed to foster skill-development.

Of course, some such skills development would preferably be provided at the local high school or tech college, possibly on weekends, and would probably require the hiring of additional educators or the provision of overtime, but could still be very beneficial. In due course, some showing talent may be inspired to seek formal technical education or possibly an apprenticeship or other advanced education.
Better to be acquiring skills than just sitting at home, or possibly getting into mischief.

Such development may not be easy, but the effort could be very beneficial, both to a district and to recipients.
In the end result, we need more jobs, but some participants may end up being motivated and assisted to start their own small business, or at least to have confidence that they can hold down a job when one becomes available.
Possibilities for a win-win, but it won't happen unless we try, unless we are fair-dinkum about it.

Picking up litter in the local park will always rate a far distant second to spending time with the greens-keeper, groundsman or gardener at the local golf course, park or playing field, or with volunteers at a local communal produce-garden.

Paul, the whole idea of the scheem is to get people out of the habit of doing nothing, and get paid to do so.

There is no reason why a bus can't be deployed, to pick people up from low employment areas, ferry them to work sites, even if it turns out they only work a couple of hours per shift, due to travel.

They will soon get very sick and tired of being put out to a point where their life on the dole is interrupted.

We could also look at areas such as our hospitals which are obviously under staffed.

Take the laundry for an example.

If we promoted people from the laundry, placed them into cleaning wards, then promoted those cleaning wards to....... The list goes on.

Meanwhile, the work for the dole people could man the washing machines under supervision of cause and, anyone caught running a muck would receive ONE warning, then get sent home and cut off.

The main problem with out system is that provided one searches for work, they remain on the dole, even if their mission is to be sacked. Enough is enough!

While no system is perfect, the current one is broken and to do nothing is simply fueling the broken system.

All previous attempts at working for the dole had very limited success, and cost far more to maintain.
This is version three, what will make this time around any different.
Vehicles and equipment, cost plenty without the normal working environment costs.
Butch is shooting from the hip just like our fearless leader, without thinking about the consequences involved.
How do you plan to eliminate the associated costs involved, without blowing the budget sky high, as have been previous cases.

I can not get my self in to a sweat here.
See I too in my threads about welfare and past ones.
Say this country needs such a scheme.
Last night I watched a TV show telling us off and showing us, a man who has been on the dole for 28 years!
28 years!
Any one share my view reform is long over due for those who over look such failure in the system?
I understand not every reform is going to be good but lets us be honest no reform insults us all by helping a 28 year veteran and his like bludge on us.

Gee! 28 years in Parliament; must be bored by now.

Work for the Dole is only meaningful if you work for normal pay rate & after you have worked to earn as much as the value of the Dole you can knock off.
Much wiser to put the young ones into a national Service paid for by the same coffers as the Dole. NS offers the building of a healthier mentality, the Dole does the opposite & we definitely don't need any more depressed non-thinkers.
But first let's buy a huge alarm clock to wake up the whole country, much easier listening than some insane howling from an onion shaped tower at half past three am.