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

that's more than one in four participants—reported their safety had reduced since the introduction of the CDC. So, if we go to the evidence and ignore the ideological rhetoric from those opposite, we see that this program did not make a difference when it came to safety and harm. Indeed, what it did for participants was make discrimination normalised in communities and stigma normalised in communities, and it had practical problems that meant that people couldn't buy a second-hand fridge, because they didn't have enough cash. It meant that families couldn't take their children to the football, because they didn't have enough cash. This has meant real problems in communities, and we are acting to fix it.

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