Amorosa-Coonarra Coasts wrote:The Cashless Debit card has passed the HoR 62 to 61. The Aboriginals and Territorians on the Cashless Debit Card are about to be the centre of a Zerocash Circus orchestrated to paint every Centrelink recipient as a dole bludger. The Industrial Relations bill proposed to Parliament doesn't look good either.
Considering MANY welfare recipients in the NT - 81% specifically - are First Nations people, this sort of seems borderline discriminatory. And it disgusts me that the Centre Alliance Party supports this.
The Cashless Welfare, or as the JuiceMedia might call it, "Class Warfare" card, is little more than another scheme to leech money from welfare recipients to Indue, run by an ex-Nats director, Garry Anthony. Although this just might be me speculating, it's likely more and more people on programs like JobKeeper or JobSeeker will be moved onto the CWC.
As if the robodebt scheme wasn't enough....
The LNP obviously aren't the way to go, Labor's....alright, the Greens are...still not sure, One Nation and the UAP, out of the question, and Katter's Party seems alright. But the way to go is that we need more independent politicians that look out for us rather than the major parties' connections to oil, gas and big business.
There are some people who leech money of Centrelink, but it's like cutting down an apple tree; you'll get rid of the bad apples, but you'll drag the legit welfare recipients in need of help down an even deeper hole.
Therefore with all due respect, I do not in any way support the
#CashlessWelfareCard.
(jordies hasnt talked about this, so I'm not parroting his word on it)
It's frankly disgusting.
That's why we need #Independents who will look out for us Australians - ALL australians
You can't possibly look out for "all" Australians. People have contradictory needs. For example, raising the minimum wage might help workers, but it hurts small mom & pop businesses. Banning McDonalds from entering small towns may help mom & pop restaurants, but it hurts mom & pop franchisees and mom & pop shareholders. Keep interest rates low? You help people with mortgages, but you hurt retierees who live off their savings. That's why I'm a centrist. I believe in finding the middle ground