Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019. The cashless debit card expansion is a bad idea, and I will not support it. There are so many members of my community, and—through you, Deputy Speaker Rob Mitchell—your communities as well, members of the government, who are just bewildered. I've lost count of the number of people who have said to me that they don't drink, they don't smoke, they don't gamble and they are not on drugs. They can't for the life of them understand why they are going to be punished in this way.

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