Thread by @SenatorSiewert

#ParentsNext lines the pockets of private providers while leaving single parents in desperate situations

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The Greens are repeating their calls to make the program voluntary

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The Government needs to act urgently to ensure the women that were interviewed on @BackgroundBrief stop being hounded.

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The Government’s constant comments that the best form of welfare is a job is even more ludicrous when you are talking about homeless women or women with young children and denies the fact that caring for children is so important

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We really need to have a more sophisticated and nuanced approach to social services and income support and the Government shouldn’t be trying at every turn to police people’s lives or chuck them off support payments.

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One of the women who shared her experience was raising eight children on less than $500 a week because her sister was killed in family violence and her payment was cut off because she couldn't meet the program's draconian requirements

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If Labor and the crossbench had supported my attempt to disallow #ParentsNext last year in the Senate the program rollout would have ceased and people in our community would not be in this position.

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