Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes That the Healthy Welfare Card is a paternalistic approach to social security, and that income management has not resulted in any significant improvements for the communities that it has been trialled in;

(b) condemns the Government for spending money on another unproven program, while cutting millions of dollars from much needed social services; and

(c) calls on the Government to abandon the healthy welfare card proposal, and instead to work directly with affected communities to develop cooperative programs that address local need.

Question negatived.