Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Hansard source

Put him on the BasicsCard. Mate, let's just see him on an income trial!

There are so many people—the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the AMA, the Australian Council of Social Services, Catholic Social Services Australia, the Australian National Council on Drugs; the list goes on and on—who have all said that this will not work, it's not appropriate and it shouldn't be done. Why are the government doing it? What is it they have got against these Australians? (Time expired)

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