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Always great to be in the studio with Katie Woolf @Mix1049_Darwin. Today discussing the #CashlessDebitCard which the @ScottMorrisonMP Government plans to impose on 23000 Territorians in 2020. Labor is against the expansion of the cashless debit card unless it’s voluntary. 
@Mix1049_Darwin @ScottMorrisonMP "I think anything that's forced on people is always questionable especially when there's been no evidence to say that it actually works. The evidence we do see is the reverse: greater poverty, homelessness, ppl on the streets, lack of jobs in our communities." #CashlessDebitCard
@Mix1049_Darwin @ScottMorrisonMP These are the things that keep pushing people that are already in dire straits into further difficulties. We dont see any real improvement say for birthweight with children, even going to school, so it has a roll on effect in the social spehere. @Mix1049_Darwin #CashlessDebitCard
@Mix1049_Darwin @ScottMorrisonMP "What we need to make sure in the Parliament when we have these debates is that it's all very well for people who are in pretty privileged positions to make these kind of laws for people who are struggling, but when you've suffered an impoverisheed life, it's quite shameful."
@Mix1049_Darwin @ScottMorrisonMP ...humiliating, you lose a sense of your dignity, and I think it's important that politicians realise that we dont want to make it worse for people who are already in a pretty bad state." #CashlessDebitCard #auspol
@Mix1049_Darwin @ScottMorrisonMP People may remember the NT Intervention. The Basics card came in then, as a way of reducing people's welfare cash amount to 50% so half their money would go onto this Basic Card and the other half would be cash. Now there has not been a thorough evaluation of that program.
@Mix1049_Darwin @ScottMorrisonMP "There was a report in 2014 but it was very limited & many of the witnesses who spoke yesterday to this Senate Enquiry were saying that this was like going back to the future by having another card come on top of a card they were forced to go on in the first place." #auspol
