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Australia’s Cashless Welfare Debit Card Trial Extended Trials for a cashless welfare purchasing card have been extended for two years across selected Australian regions after the legislation was passed by Parliament on Thursday. The Morrison government’s legislation hopes to improve the welfare system and the lives of deprived families by ensuring welfare money is spent on essential items such as groceries and bills—despite some Indigenous leaders attribute the social dysfunction in Indi...

Indigenous community groups say they are deeply disappointed the Cashless Debit Card will be extended for another two years despite no evidence it is working.

A trial of the controversial cashless welfare card will run for two more years. Heres what people think ThuThursday 10 updated ThuThursday 10 Kununurra elder Ted Carlton holds a cashless welfare card. ( Share Print text only Cancel Despite fierce debate among politicians over the past week in determining whether or not the cashless welfare program would be made permanent, reactions from community leaders to an extension of the cards trial have been more nuanced. Key points: Trials of a contro...

Share Share on Twitter Single mother Sylvia Asusaar says she was “devastated” after the governments cashless debit card scheme was extended in parliament.  Trials of the program are set to go ahead for another two years after the federal government secured enough votes in the Senate on Wednesday night. This is despite the government failing to convince senators to roll out the scheme permanently in designated areas across the country.  Ms Asusaar, who i...

Share on Twitter Critics of the cashless debit card have condemned the decision to temporarily extend the scheme as a backwards step for Indigenous Australians and welfare recipients.  Trials of the federal government’s scheme are set to go ahead for another two years after the government failed to convince the Senate to roll it out permanently in some areas.  The federal government said the policy would help communities by preventing people on welfare from spending money on alc...

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 the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end. Yet in the final Senate vote, it was revealed that Centre Alliance had reached an understanding with the government. The trail at four sites outside the Northern Territory would be extended by another two years and people in the Territory would b...

Parliament  has passed the controversial Cashless Debit Card  (CDC) laws overnight but last minute amendments mean the trial sites will now be extended for two years and will be optional for people currently on the Basics Card in the Northern Territory.  The contentious CDC is being trialled in four regions - Ceduna in South Australia, the East Kimberly and Goldfields region in the West and Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in Queensland. The card quarantines 80 per cent of government payments so the...