Cashless welfare card: a breach of human rights?

A Parliamentary joint human rights committee has told Social Services Minister Christian Porter that it believes the proposed cashless welfare card could breach a person’s right to privacy and may even discriminate against Indigenous people, women and people with disabilities.

The new card will lock up all but 20 per cent of Newstart payments so it can’t be used to gamble, or buy drugs and alcohol.

“Restricting how a person can access, and where they can spend, their social security benefits, interferes with the person’s right to personal autonomy and therefore their right to a private life,” according to the report.

Do you think the cashless welfare card breaches human rights? Or is the Government within their rights to decide how taxpayer-funded welfare should be spent? Or do you see this as an attempt to control the incomes of the welfare class?

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SPAMMERS of course

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