Who's really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card
- Written by Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart last 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 done a deal with the...
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