Human rights problems on the horizon for cashless welfare card

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The so-called “cashless welfare card” will be trialled in the small South Australian town of Ceduna in February next year. Welfare recipients will have 80 per cent of their money quarantined on the card. But advocates see many of the same problems identified in earlier reviews of income management schemes.

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