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

The cashless debit card is a program for working age payment recipients to help stabilise their lives and get them on a pathway to work and provide opportunity for individuals, their families and communities. Those on the other side should be ashamed of the way they're obsessed with playing politics with this issue. They supported the cashless debit card being introduced in 2015 and through its expansion, up until the 2019 election, when they decided to put politics above people. And now they're running a shameful scare campaign aimed at age pensioners. It is disgusting. The government has never had and will never have a plan to force age pensioners onto the cashless debit card. First Labor wanted a retirees tax and now they're lying to retirees. What's next? Unlike those opposite, we have always been transparent with the Australian people about our plans for the cashless debit card. We will not oppose this OPD.

Question agreed to.