Welfare card trial sites still undecided
SCOTT Morrison wants to get feedback before trial sites are named for the cashless card, which stops spending on drugs, alcohol and gambling.img...
View ArticleTony Abbott: welfare card will help lift Indigenous people 'by their bootstraps'
On eve of northern Australia tour, PM says cashless debit card is not the whole answer, but Aboriginal people are finally getting the attention they deserve ...
View ArticleCashless welfare trial to go ahead
The remote South Australian town of Ceduna will be the site of the first trial of the welfare debit card, which will hold 80 per cent of fortnightly payments and can't be used on alcohol or gambling....
View ArticleCashless welfare card plan stalled after Labor and crossbench call for more time
Labor and a number of key crossbenchers have said more time is needed to refine legislation on trial of card in Ceduna and say consultation has been rushed...
View ArticleFears cashless welfare card could discriminate against Indigenous people
In Ceduna trial 72% of people forced on to card would be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, despite those groups accounting for 30% of the population...
View ArticleCashless welfare card could breach right to privacy – human rights committee
Parliamentary joint committee asks social services minister to explain how the bill is compatible with human rights...
View ArticleCashless Welfare Card Cannot Be a Stand Alone Solution - CSSA (Archdiocese of...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 9 Oct 2015 Cashless Welfare Card goes further than Basics Card and will prevent 80percent of welfare payments being spent on...
View ArticleGovernment and ALP join to keep cashless welfare card trials alive...
(Source: Australian Greens) A Greens disallowance motion that would block the trial of the cashless welfare card trial in Ceduna has been opposed by the Coalition and the ALP. 'This has cemented...
View ArticleCeduna residents planning to leave town to avoid cashless welfare card trial...
(Source: Australian Greens) Ceduna residents planning to leave town to avoid the cashless welfare card trial may not be aware that they cannot opt out once the trial has begun, Senator Rachel Siewert...
View ArticleCashless Debit Card Trial Commences in Ceduna (Department of Social Services...
(Source: Department of Social Services - Australian Government) 15 March 2016 The Hon Alan Tudge MP Minister for Social Services Today is a watershed moment for how we deliver welfare payments in...
View ArticleGreens support national day of action against cashless welfare card...
(Source: Australian Greens) The Australian Greens support rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as part of a national weekend of action against the Cashless Welfare Card. 'This weekend communities...
View ArticleGreens to move disallowance motion for Ceduna cashless welfare card trial...
(Source: Australian Greens) With the Government's clear ideological intention to expand the cashless welfare card trials throughout regional Australia, Senator Rachel Siewert has announced plans to...
View ArticleEstimates reveals cashless welfare card still has huge loopholes and remains...
(Source: Australian Greens) Estimates has revealed the cashless welfare card trial set for South Australia and the East Kimberley still has logistical issues and loopholes that need to be addressed,...
View ArticleAndrew Forrest accused of lack of transparency over ad for cashless welfare card
Minderoo Foundation disseminates ad promoting cashless welfare card without disclosing Forrest’s role as its chairman...
View ArticleThe Cashless Welfare Card Is Patronising, Ideological, And Undignified
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert puts her party’s case against the new welfare management scheme, introduced by Labor and the Coalition. You know that sinking feeling when you find exactly what you need...
View ArticleWe’re being softened up for more paternalistic welfare policy. We must resist
Over the past few weeks, the Minderoo Foundation, established by Andrew and Nicola Forrest, has run public advertising campaigns promoting a cashless welfare card that was recommended in a report...
View ArticleWelfare crackdown in federal budget sees jobseekers face drug-testing
New measures include trialling drug tests on some new dole recipients and extending use of cashless welfare cards...
View ArticleCashless welfare card panel 'akin to a star chamber'
Greens senator raises privacy concerns over anonymous panel to which welfare recipients apply for cash payment increase...
View ArticleCashless welfare card could benefit other communities, says Turnbull
Prime minister says card designed to cut spending on alcohol and gambling has made a ‘positive difference’ in Ceduna, South Australia...
View ArticleCashless Debit Card extended following positive independent evaluation
14 March 2017 The Hon Alan Tudge MP Minister for Human Services The Government has agreed to extend the Cashless Debit Card trial sites in Ceduna, South Australia and East Kimberley, Western Australia...
View ArticleGreens shed doubt on success of cashless welfare card
Card’s introduction in Ceduna coincided with funding boost to 17 social services, prompting questions over whether outcomes were due to card or other services...
View ArticleCoalition and Labor push on with cashless welfare card
The Coalition and the Labor party have voted down a Greens disallowance motion that would have stopped the cashless welfare card trial extensions. 'When the yearlong trials of the cashless welfare card...
View ArticleCashless Debit Card trial half-way point and communities are seeing the...
(Source: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - Australian Government) The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion and the Minister...
View ArticleCashless Debit Card trial half-way point and communities are seeing the...
(Source: Prime Minister of Australia) The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion and the Minister for Human Services, Alan Tudge, will visit...
View ArticleCashless Debit Card trial half-way point and communities are seeing the...
(Source: Australian Government) The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion and the Minister for Human Services, Alan Tudge, will visit the...
View ArticleCashless welfare card made life worse, say half of trial participants
Independent evaluation finds limited crime impact but positive effect on gambling, alcohol and illegal drug use...
View ArticleCashless welfare card trial costs up to $18.9m, data reveals
Australian Council of Social Services says money should be diverted to proven support services...
View ArticleScott Morrison says sewage will be tested to find areas of high drug use for...
Treasurer says areas of high drug use ‘the best place to start’ trial of drug testing for Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients...
View ArticleCashless welfare card: doubt cast on study used to justify expansion
ANU researchers say it’s ‘unwise’ to place too much stock in evaluation which found card was effective ‘in reducing alcohol consumption, illegal drug use and gambling’...
View ArticleUnknown community leaders consulted on cashless welfare card trials shows...
It is concerning that the those consulted for the extension of the cashless welfare card trials are unknown 'leaders' that the Government have kept anonymous, Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert...
View ArticleFederal ministers talking to Ceduna residents participating in cashless...
The federal ministers for human services and social services are in the South Australian town of Ceduna today meeting people involved in the Federal Government's first cashless welfare trial. The card...
View ArticleLabor sides with Government to keep cashless welfare card in East Kimberley...
(Source: Australian Greens) The Labor party have today sided with the Government to oppose a disallowance motion in the Senate that would halt the cashless welfare card in the East Kimberley. 'It is...
View ArticleHealthy welfare card restricts spending on alcohol, gambling
EXCLUSIVE A proposed "technologically advanced" cashless welfare card will link to recipients' mobile phones and restrict them from spending payments on gambling and alcohol. The legislation for the...
View ArticleCashless welfare card trial begins in Ceduna
The Federal Government's trial of a cashless welfare card begins in the South Australian town of Ceduna today. All welfare recipients except veterans and pensioners will have 80 per cent of their...
View ArticleTough day in Kununurra and Wyndham as cashless welfare card rolls out...
(Source: Australian Greens) The Greens say today will be a tough day for income support recipients in Kununurra and Wyndham, with the cashless welfare card trial beginning today despite...
View ArticleCoalition 'cherry picking' data to support cashless welfare card trial
The Greens senator Rachel Siewert has accused the human services minister, Alan Tudge, of “cherry-picking” data to feature in...
View ArticleCashless welfare card trial still has 'major flaws in the system', Greens...
A cashless welfare card that cannot be used for alcohol or gambling still has major flaws, the Greens say, as the trial is rolled out in South Australia. ......
View ArticleSA town volunteers to be first trial site for healthy welfare card
The South Australian town of Ceduna has today become the first community to sign up to a trial of the healthy welfare card. The card will work like a debit card but cannot be used for purchasing...
View Article'Cashless' welfare card trial announced
The Federal Government has confirmed there will be a number of trials of a welfare debit card that would stop people spending money on alcohol and gambling....
View ArticleGovernment will trial cashless welfare card
The Federal Government will trial a cashless welfare card, with payments not allowed to be spent on alcohol or gambling, after the idea was raised in an Indigenous employment review last year....
View ArticleHervey Bay residents deny Sydney socialists behind cashless welfare card...
Their MP’s push for a trial prompts opposition from locals who fear the card will hurt the region...
View ArticleAbbott government says Andrew Forrest welfare card will have to involve cash
Abbott government concedes it will have to allow some cash withdrawals when it trials new welfare-management card proposed by mining billionaire...
View Article'Healthy Welfare Card' trials to tackle violence and alcohol abuse
Welfare recipients will be given cashless cards to stop them from spending money on alcohol and drugs in a bid to combat violence against women and children. Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime...
View ArticleGovernment to trial new cashless welfare card
Social Services Minister Scott Morrison says there are no plans for the widespread use of a...
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