On one level laudable, perhaps, but on another level you wonder whether the minister thinks this will solve the need for ever-growing numbers of soup kitchens, as benefit levels fall.
His deputy and prospective foreign minister, Julie Bishop, picks holes in the white paper ("a missed opportunity and potentially counter-productive") but concedes that its goals and targets are "laudable".One analyst, however, levels two related criticisms at it.
Leaving aside the fact that she is unbeaten – and only one horse in racing history has a better perfect record, the 19th century phenomenon Kincsem with her 54 victories – for any horse to race 22 times over four years at elite levels is laudable.
Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper to be published online this week would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2°C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.
On one level it was laudable anti-elitism - a democratisation of art that encouraged the DIY ethic that underpinned punk.
On one level, it is laudable that government has managed to produce a 41-page study, finding not merely some loose change missing from the city's pockets but a sizable -- and sorely needed -- amount of lingering debt.
So while on one level it is laudable that John Dubya, Liverpool's owner, is being open and straightforward about the approaches he is making to potential successors to King Kenny, he may also want to consider how the whole process is making the club look laughable.
This is laudable and just on many levels, but is harder and harder to justify in this age when social media demands instant access and wide distribution.
But for years, such strategies were viewed as a way to help achieve the laudable goal of boosting home-ownership levels in this country.
Willingness to take chances may be laudable in some cases, but surely this level of risk is irresponsible.
