Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Social Security (Administration) (Trial Area—East Kimberley) Determination 2016, made under subsections 124PD(2) and 124PG(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1999, be disallowed.

I am standing yet again to draw the attention of this place to the impact of the cashless welfare card and give this place another opportunity to change their minds and realise that the evidence shows that this approach does not work.

It is clear that this is an ideological push from the government, supported by the ALP, to foist onto a community a particular means of control that will have significant impacts on those people who are affected and their communities. The evidence is really clear. I have read the evidence out to this place time and time again yet, still, in the face of the evidence, the government and the ALP refuse to acknowledge that income management—because that is what this is—does not work. That is what this is. I acknowledge it is not quite the same—it is in fact on steroids—but that is what this is.