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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...

But other options include: Mallard thinking a hug was akin to rape; a complainant who didnt want to be targeted by Soper and tories so did not want to take their complaint further, and Mallard is taking a hit for summarising the complaint accurately but prematurely in public; the initial confidential findings getting a massive backtrack when employment and more serious options started being pursued Mallard completely misread and conflated the allegations into something that nobody had described...

Cashless welfare program extended, and Christian Porter is reportedly prepared to dump a proposed, temporary dismantling of the "better off overall test".

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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...