Senate debates

Thursday, 1 August 2019

Bills

Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019; In Committee

9:38 am

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

I can now articulate the Greens' position on this amendment. We will support it. I have thought quite long and hard about this because I do see the other side of the argument, which is this will enable us to make quick decisions if there's some other way to enable people to opt out. My concern is that it could be used in future to make things harder to opt out rather than to facilitate opting out. So, on balance, we will support this amendment because we're concerned about ramping up and perhaps narrowing down how people can opt out.

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