Senators have granted a two-year extension to a program for which there is little supporting evidence.
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The Morrison government has introduced a bill to parliament to make the cashless debit card trial ‘ongoing’.
The first independent, multisite study of compulsory income management in Australia suggest little evidence to support political enthusiasm to extend the policy.
The government wants to triple the number of Australians on the Cashless Debit Card in the face of scant evidence it does them any good.
The lived experience of the lead-grey cashless debit card is a world away from the black-and-white impressions of federal politicians.
After losing her marginal seat of Corangamite at the election, Sarah Henderson is set to return to parliament after winning preselection for a Victorian Senate vacancy.
That the Cashless Debit Card continues to be pursued exposes a dogged obsession with implementing punitive policy at the expense of vulnerable people.
The trial of the cashless welfare card, to control unhealthy spending in Indigenous communities, is being expanded partly due to emotive well-funded campaigns. Meanwhile, evidence is being ignored.
Critics of the Cashless Welfare Card trial overlook the fact it is curbing alcohol and gambling problems – and it’s what the communities want.
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University
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Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Curtin Medical School Public Health Physician, Curtin University
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Griffith University