Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Rice, for your contribution, and thank you for your support of the legislation. I can talk specifically about the Northern Territory, but I think it answers your question generally. Our amendments relating to the Northern Territory allow for the new, enhanced technology to be offered to the current CDC participants in the Northern Territory. This amendment places no new people on compulsory income management that would otherwise not have been subject to this program. The affected participants are subject to the income management legislation in the Northern Territory and would have been placed back onto the BasicsCard without this amendment offering them enhanced technology.