Today, the Community Affairs Legislative Committee held a hearing into Labor\u2019s proposed Income Management Reform Bill, which essentially reintroduces a Cashless Debit Card 2.0 and further entrenches compulsory income management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The SmartCard is provided by the same company, Indue, who ran the Cashless Debit Card scheme, and is effectively the Cashless Debit Card by another name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Janet Rice, Greens spokesperson for Social Services, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Labor party has yet again betrayed people on income support with this Cashless Debit Card 2.0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor pledged to end compulsory income management in opposition. Now they\u2019re in government, Labor\u2019s proposed SmartCard is just the Cashless Debit Card with a different name and colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf anyone thinks that Labor\u2019s SmartCard Bill is only about improving technology, this hearing would have quickly disabused them of that notion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis bill goes far beyond technology; it introduces a sneaky and insidious framework that will significantly expand the Minister\u2019s power to roll out compulsory income management in new areas, despite Labor\u2019s campaign against CDC in opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf this bill passes the Senate in its current form, Labor will be going further than the Liberals did in allowing the expansion of the racist and entirely ineffective compulsory income management system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence that compulsory income management works, and we\u2019ve heard from witness after witness today that this racist, paternalistic policy framework only does damage to individuals and communities, especially to First Nations people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe SmartCard bill doesn\u2019t even contain a sunset clause like the CDC legislation did. Labor campaigned to end compulsory income management, yet this bill will entrench it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, the Community Affairs Legislative Committee held a hearing into Labor\u2019s proposed Income Management Reform Bill, which essentially reintroduces a Cashless Debit Card 2.0 and further entrenches compulsory income management. The SmartCard is provided by the same company, Indue, who ran the Cashless Debit Card scheme, and is effectively the Cashless Debit Card by another … Continue reading “SENATE INQUIRY EXPOSES LABOR\u2019S PLAN TO EXPAND COMPULSORY INCOME MANAGEMENT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21192,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions\/21192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}