Lee Rhiannon (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I understand that the department is attempting to interact with the local communities so that this can work effectively. But when opposition develops, how do you gauge that?

I would like to share with you the widespread opposition that there is in Bankstown. I will read out a list of 57 organisations who have raised their opposition to income management in Bankstown. It includes: Catholic Care; the Maritime Union of Australia; the New South Wales Nurses Association; Unions New South Wales, the Arab Council Australia Inc.; the Association of Bahrain Al Amin; the Australian Arab Business Network; the Australian Immigrant and Refugee Women's Alliance; the Australian Services Union; the Bankstown Area Multicultural Network; the Bankstown Community Resource Group; the Bankstown Women's Health Centre; the Cabramatta Community Centre; the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants of New South Wales; the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union New South Wales; the New South Wales Council of Social Services; the Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation; the Ethnic Child Care, Family and Community Services Coop; the Ethnic Communities Council of New South Wales; the Finance Sector Union, New South Wales/ACT Branch; the Fairfield Local Aboriginal Access Group; the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia; the Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council; the Granville Multicultural Community Centre; the Greek Orthodox Community of New South Wales; the Greenacre Area Neighbourhood Centre Inc.; the Green Left Weekly; the Immigration Advocacy and Services Network; the Inner South-West Community Development Organisation Ltd; the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, Research Unit, UTS; the Lebanese Community Council of New South Wales; the Lebanese Muslim Association; the Metro Migrant Resource Centre; the National Association of Community Legal Centres Inc; the National Tertiary Education Union New South Wales; the Network of Immigrant and Refugee Women of Australia Inc.; the Olive Tree Women's Network; the Pacific Island Women Advocate Support Service; the Presentation Sisters Queensland; the Public Service Association New South Wales; Reconciliation for Western Sydney; the St Vincent de Paul National Council of Australia; the Sisters of St Joseph South Australia Reconciliation Circle; the Society of Australian Presentation Sisters Justice Group; the South West Community Legal Centre; the Stop the Intervention Collective—

The CHAIRMAN: Senator Rhiannon—

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