Thread by @AusUnemployment

The #CashlessDebitCard is coming up for debate in the senate.

Follow along live to see whether @Senator_Patrick and @JacquiLambie vote on principle or decide to play politics with people's lives.

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Labor standing firmly against the CDC legislation in the senate, pointing out the Card is racist, & discriminatory. @SenKatyG says there’s no reason the g’ment had to push it through this week — we agree

Now @SenatorSiewert is up: she references the report leaked to the Guardian yesterday, that g’ment tried to hide. “This isn’t based on evidence or what works — this is based on ideology.”

Here we fucking go: Pauline Hanson says she is speaking on behalf of Aboriginal communities, saying that the Card will be good for them

Pauline Hanson justifies the cruelty of the card, saying there’s such a thing as “tough love”. The fact that white supremacists like Hanson love cashless welfare so much says all you need to know about it

Now, @Malarndirri19 is up, urging the crossbenchers NOT to help the government rush the Bill through. Says the government has degraded the lives of people on this Card for 4 years

#LambieWatch: is @JacquiLambie making deals on the floors of the senate, or working to make sure they do the right thing? I guess we’ll find out

Now, @SenatorDodson has the floor: he says, through cashless welfare, government is telling the poor to “get back to where you belong”. We appreciate the sentiment & forgive him for the Beatles reference

@SenatorDodson: “the government has now pressed the Get Back button with this legislation.” He says this legislation flies in the face of Closing The Gap, & he will not stop referencing that Beatles song

Senator Dodson asks “try living the life of a person on this card”, over the sound of Liberal senators laughing. The senate is a sickening hell pit

Can’t tell you how abject this spectacle always is: watching senators on $200k+/year playing with the lives of people surviving on $14k/year