Tag: Income management
Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card
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The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart on Wednesday night.
Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make...
‘I don’t want anybody to see me using it’: cashless welfare cards do more harm than good
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The Australian government touts compulsory income management as a way to stop welfare payments being spent on alcohol, drugs or gambling.
The Howard government...
There’s mounting evidence against cashless debit cards, but the government is ploughing on regardless
Coming to a community near you. Sabrina Roy with her baby Xena
at the Milingimbi general store in the Northern Territory in 2015. Dean...