Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator McCarthy. In fact, given that his evidence was that it was you that did a lot of the consultation in the Northern Territory about people wanting to have the cashless debit card abolished, it would be good to get your response to this. The evidence that Senator Farrell gave was that people in the Northern Territory who were consulted with overwhelmingly wanted to see the abolition of the cashless debit card. What I asked was: in that consultation, did they say people wanted to stay on the BasicsCard or be transitioned from the cashless debit card onto the BasicsCard, or was the overwhelming evidence that they wanted to see the end of any form of compulsory income management altogether?