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Cashless welfare card

July 2024

  • A cashless welfare card

    Abolished cashless debit card still divides, two years after Labor ordered its demise

    Some users reported ‘poor decision making’ and financial coercion while others experienced positive outcomes such as reduced discrimination

September 2022

  • Minister for social services Amanda Rishworth

    Australia’s cashless debit card to become voluntary from 4 October, Labor says

    Legislation to end mandatory scheme delayed by death of Queen Elizabeth II but now expected to pass next week
  • Janet Rices speaking in the Senate

    Greens in bid to scrap all welfare income management as government abolishes cashless debit card

    Labor has Senate numbers to pass bill axing controversial scheme, but crossbenchers hopeful their amendments will be included

  • 'I get angry when others seek to define me by race': Kerrynne Liddle gives first speech – video

    Liberal senator speaks of potential 'devastation and chaos' if the cashless debit card is abolished

August 2022

  • Australia’s social services minister Amanda Rishworth

    Most crossbenchers back scrapping cashless debit card but flag concerns for participants

  • Minister for Employment Tony Burke

    Buy-now-pay-later schemes complicate abolition of cashless debit card, Tony Burke says

April 2022

  • Factcheck
    Factcheck: is the Coalition planning to put age pensioners on the cashless debit card? – video

    Antoun Issa checks the facts during the 2022 Australian federal election

March 2022

  • Andrew Forrest

    ‘Judge me on my actions’: can Andrew Forrest become Australia’s clean, green hero?

    The billionaire mining magnate known as Twiggy may be emulating Bill Gates with the scale of his philanthropy, but not everyone is convinced

November 2021

  • People line up outside Centrelink

    Inequality reporting
    Company running cashless debit card scheme in Australia claimed $2m in jobkeeper before rise in revenue

    Payments firm Indue says ‘we intend to retain the jobkeeper payments on the basis that Indue met the qualifying criteria’

May 2021

  • Centrelink sign

    Labor promises to scrap ‘privatised’ cashless welfare card if elected

    Anthony Albanese says trial scheme, run by financial services firm Indue, introduces ‘profit motive’ above public interest

February 2021

  • A cashless welfare card

    Cashless debit card: review fails to find proof Coalition welfare scheme reduces social harm

    Researchers paint a mixed picture of the controversial program and its role in reducing alcohol and drug use

January 2021

  • A sad Christmas tree

    The cashless welfare card makes life hard – you can't do normal things

    Craig Chaloner and Kaelah
    It’s about power and control, and appeasing the masses who think we’re all dole bludgers. We’re not

December 2020

  • Rex Patrick

    Cashless debit card extended for two years after Senate rejects plan to make it permanent

    Senator Rex Patrick refused to back the Coalition’s bill due to a lack of evidence
  • The township of Kalgoorlie next to the Fimiston Open Pit mine, in the Goldfields region of Western Australia, which is one of the trial sites for the cashless welfare card.

    Cashless debit card: government's own research finds underwhelming support

    Exclusive: findings comes as Coalition faces internal dissent over a bill to make the controversial welfare policy permanent at four trial sites
  • A cashless welfare card

    The cashless debit card could be another robodebt-style fiasco

    Elise Klein, Jon Altman and David Tennant
    A bill to make the card permanent, despite there being no evidence for its success, is now before parliament

November 2020

  • A cashless welfare card

    Cashless welfare card has little impact on gambling, drug and alcohol abuse, study finds

  • cashless welfare card

    Cashless welfare card: fewer than 10% of Senate inquiry submissions back bill

October 2020

  • A cashless welfare card

    Australians on cashless welfare card express 'hopelessness' after Coalition's plan to cement scheme

    Controversial scheme which quarantines up to 80% of a welfare recipient’s payments will become permanent across four trial sites

May 2020

  • The Centrelink sign is seen in the west NSW town of Broken Hill, Sunday, July 8, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Welfare recipients facing five-month delays to exit cashless debit card scheme

  • A customer pays for groceries at a supermarket

    Cashless debit card causes stigma and stress, government study suggests

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