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The Mounting Human Costs of the Cashless Debit Card

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April 6, 2019 Tags: Cashless Welfare Card Ceduna Kimberley (Western Australia) social security payments South Australia

The pursuit of income management by government continues to be a disturbing trend given the evidence mounting against its efficacy, including its latest iteration – the Cashless Debit Card, introduced in 2015.

Single parents are $271 per fortnight worse off

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December 3, 2018 Tags: family payments Newstart Parenting Payment social security payments

Thirty years after Prime Minister Bob Hawke famously promised that by 1990 no Australian child would live in poverty, Bill Shorten has promised that, if elected, Labor will use a “root and branch review” to lift the rate of the Newstart unemployment benefit.