Sydney: Australia will drug test the newly-unemployed as part of a crackdown on people who blow their benefits on getting high, with data from sewage used to identify which hot spots to target, officials said.
Up to 5,000 jobless will have to take the test to qualify for allowances as part of a trial to address welfare-fuelled substance abuse.
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