Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

When it comes to the Goldfields area, I am aware that the Shire of Leonora has reported an increase in antisocial behaviour in that community, including an increase of hospital visitations, which has been attributed to an increase of people coming to the community from the NG lands. I note that these lands were never in the cashless debit card boundaries, so to suggest that somehow the influx of people from areas outside the cashless debit card site is linked to the removal of this card is disingenuous and wrong. I understand that the towns of Laverton and Kambalda have also had an increase in antisocial behaviour, which has been linked to the population influx, which of course is not unusual for this time of year, and that most of the increases were from people from areas that were never in the cashless debit card boundaries. Across the region—

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