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

In 2015, the former government was then interested in whether or not the cashless debit card reduced violence or harm in the trial areas, but by 2020 they were no longer interested. Why? You might wonder. It is because they could not provide any evidence to suggest there was a reduction in harm and violence in communities. We've heard a lot from those on the other side about the University of Adelaide report, and I want to go to the part of the report that talks about safety, crime and family violence, where it said that 60 per cent of CDC participants reported that they did not feel safer since the introduction of the CDC card and 28 per cent—

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