Senate debates

Tuesday, 27 September 2022

Bills

Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Repeal of Cashless Debit Card and Other Measures) Bill 2022; In Committee

9:40 pm

Photo of Jacqui LambieJacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

or LAMBIE () (): I want to go back to the BasicsCard. It is an income management card, which you are now keeping in. We know it was brought out in 2007 by the Howard government, and Labor expanded it to a wider cohort of jobseekers, and not just Aboriginal people, in 2010. Please tell me why you did that in 2010, yet we still have the same social problems around and you don't want income management now, apart from the BasicsCard. Tell me why that is, because I don't understand it.

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