Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

My understanding is that the percentage of the population in Australia that is Indigenous is around two per cent. However, I would like to put on the record that in the case of the Ceduna community—I think I included this in my second reading speech—the reason that we have the cashless debit card is that the people that actually developed the cashless debit card in Ceduna did so as a result of the coronial inquest into the sleeping rough inquiry that occurred on the back of six tragic deaths in their community because of people sleeping rough because of alcohol and drug related harm that people were doing to themselves. It was actually the Indigenous community leaders of the communities around the Ceduna area that sought for this card to be introduced in their community.