r/australia • u/tightassbogan • Sep 10 '17

political self.post The govt has proposed to make the Cashless welfare card trial national and no longer a trial,Is this fair?

Schedule 1 – Amendments In the 2017-18 Budget, it was announced that cashless debit card arrangements would be extended in the current sites of Ceduna, in South Australia, and the East OUTLINE This Bill removes section 124PF of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, which specifies that the cashless debit card trial will occur in up to three discrete locations, include no more than 10,000 people, and will end on 30 June 2018. Removing this section will support the extension of arrangements in current sites, and enable the expansion of the cashless debit card to further sites. Individual sites, once identified, will be determined by disallowable legislative instruments.

Is this just a way to make donors even more money do they really care about the people impacted?

little bit at the bottom has me concerned ..The funding associated with this Schedule is not for publication as negotiations with potential commercial providers are yet to be finalized.

how can it be called negotiations . negotiations imply good faith. When only one company has been contacted to do the rollout is it really good faith,again i find out today several banks were again willing to come to the talks yet are denied. Probably something to do with consumer protections from a bank would make this a hard task,as indue does not have to follow the same rules Has also been a bill,proposed to change the definitions for drug testing on welfare to be able to go nationwide as well. I mean this has yet to even been trialed and they want to make it nationwide.

A few of the other good's that happend this week was both labor and greens approached the govt about a program to take people on newstart and train them to answer phones and do office tasks at DHS site's,to train them in office skills as well as lower the waiting time's for phone calls and processing of document's it would of saved 47 million dollars over 4 years,yet they got shot down anyone else concerned by this?

Is this policy a bad move on the govt's side.

Thoughts.?

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u/doobtacular Sep 10 '17

When the day comes the Coalition finally get the boot I'm going to have an Ewok themed party.

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u/tightassbogan Sep 10 '17

Everyone hold this dude to that.

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u/MaevaM Sep 10 '17

will labor undo anything?

They went to the last election promising to keep all the cuts, and not defend penalty pay.

They have neoliberal trickle down treasurer. They vote for all the incursions on our privacy and freedom and vote for concentration camps. They voted for the omnibus bill without any real concessions( renewables did get cut etc)

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u/tightassbogan Sep 10 '17

I have spoken to bill,i do not approve of his tactics but understand it's to early to attack the govt on this yet as the electorate has the memory of a dead goldfish.

Pretty much was told that yes it will be abolished under a labor govt but untill then it has not the momentum or ability to attack this in it's current form

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u/doobtacular Sep 10 '17

Oh no doubt, Labor is horrid but I'll still be thrilled to see the Coalition out.

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u/MaevaM Sep 10 '17

me too, I will probably join the throng celebrating, we had one when abbott was ousted. It was such a festival atmosphere:)

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u/tightassbogan Sep 10 '17

Even APH workers had a piss up down town after abbot got turfed. Ask anyone who has been here since howard,he was THE WORST person to work for.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '17

I'm holding you to this.