Howdy dear availees everywhere and welcome to another relatively short post with lotsa' attached homework....(orrrr, not homework again!-Ed)...well let's call it research then...(too late buddy, too little too late-Ed)...well, it's just what it is, so let's get stuck in...today we're mostly covering the basely abusive realities that are the Cashless Welfare Card, which then plows unavoidably into the ABC's crassly obvious pro-LNP bias we've been repeatedly bangin' on about in numerous recent posts...(orrrr, not the ABC's crassly obvious pro-LNP bias again-Ed)...as I said, it's unfortunately unavoidable...(yeah, but homework and more ABC pro-LNP bias-Ed)...I know, I ain't enjoyin' it any more than you are, or indeed I'm sure most dear availees, but this what's happening in the lead-up to the May 2022 Federal Election...(I know, I know-Ed)...and the issue of the Australian media's wholly complicit pro-LNP bias/corruption, is in many ways that issue is as critical as any policy announcement, etc...(I know, 'cos the almost entirely biased MSM controls the narrative and it's an embarrassing disgrace for all involved that literally everything they say/print has to be scrutinised for it's likely gross and deliberate pro-LNP errors-Ed)...exactly, so let's get stuck into it...
First things first, here's the link to the Twitter feed for The Say No 7, a group/page dedicated to educating people about the many inherent horrors of the 'Indue Debit/Welfare Card System'...there's a literal tonne of stuff on there about this, and we're gunna' pinch their direct descriptor..."The #cashlessdebitcard is a blanket and compulsory measure, applied to all centrelink recipients in a designated region against their will, irrespective of circumstances who are NOT assessed or determined prior to have ANY social or addiction problem."...
Cashless Welfare Card:...sometimes referred to as the Cashless Debit Card, is a wholly corrupted and abusive Liberal/National Party construct, forced on people with all the gaslighting deceits the LNP can muster about how it's supposedly for the benefit/best outcomes for those subjected to it...(is that the stuff about how it's supposedly gunna' stop gambling, alcohol purchases, drug dealing, etc?-Ed)...yep...(which has been proven/reported it's largely failing to do?-Ed)...exactly...rather than stuff around tryin' to explain it, let's jump to the official explanation/description...
Here's the intro part of the official explanation from the Parliament of Australia website, with the critical issue being identified re the prevention of accessing cash...as identified across multiple Twitter stories, this means that people can't pay for their kid's school excursions/tuckshop/etc, purchase second-hand goods, go to local and/or farmer's markets, shop at charity stores like St Vinnies/Lifeline op-shops, etc...(but, and call me a cynic if you will, they can, indeed must shop at "approved retailers", like, just as a random example, pro-LNP/pro-Murdoch retailer Harvey Norman-Ed)...spot on buddy...it's worth reading that entire explanation, only about a page or so, so we've also included the link to the PoA website...the second link is to the Dept of Social Services explanation...***
The Australian Government has two separate cards designed to restrict how income support recipients can spend their payments—the BasicsCard and the cashless debit card. While both schemes rely on cards provided by payments company, Indue, they work in different ways.
The biggest differences are:
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Who can accept the card. The BasicsCard can only be used at merchants that the Department of Human Services has approved. The cashless debit card can be used at any merchant the Department has not blocked (provided it is able to accept Visa Debit).
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Merchant responsibilities. All merchants who accept BasicsCard must sign an agreement not to process transactions for excluded goods such as alcohol or tobacco. Most merchants who accept the cashless debit card have no agreement with either the Department or the card provider.
Both cards prevent income support recipients from withdrawing cash. Income support recipients receive part of their payment on their card with the remainder transferred to their bank account in the normal way.
***As identified above, both forms of Income Control are run by a private company, Indue Ltd...and that's the genuine motivation for creating/operating these cards...here's the link to an explanation of the Indue structure, who runs, it, etc...(who profits-Ed)...exactly, and unsurprisingly it's a litany of LNP stooges...
https://twitter.com/ozziewiltshire/status/1515868613672341509
Here's the link (from Twitter) to Labor MP Julian Hill's take on this, and please scroll down the comments 'cos that includes, 1) a copy of a bill/receipt that shows that the CWC is paid through the International Commercial Bank of China, and a bit further down 2) a copy of the actual legislation already in place under, Section 61, Subsection 124(PD)1, that allows a mere administrative decision to include all Aged Pensioners on the CWC...
https://twitter.com/JulianHillMP/status/1518131396744597509
Here's the link (again from Twitter) to a brief grab from the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, identifying that there are already some Aged Pensioners on the Basics Card and CWC...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnjZBP8L1MY
Multiple welfare and Women's safety organisations and/or advocates have expressed their concerns about the problems these cards/schemes create for people (usually women) in abusive/violent relationships, especially the chilling effect it has by denying financial capacity to remove themselves from those relationships...(yeah, financial control is a text-book abuse control tool/mechanism-Ed)...it's a point clearly defined in the bluntly hilarious but brutally accurate The Juice Media - Honest Government Ad piece...(and yet again it's biting satire that most accurately reports the political realities in the rolling shit-show that is our nation and our chronically biased MSM-Ed)...indeed, so here's the link to a Twitter thread that includes links to 1) the TJM - HGA, and also 2) the associated TJM podcast further explaining/exploring issues in their HGA...we've also included the direct Youtube link to the TJM -HGA clip 'cos it's well worth reading the 'Comments' section about what people think and/or have experienced, including some overseas observations/experiences...
https://twitter.com/deniseshrivell/status/1516895199628201985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RZSTx9khWw
The Inherent Racism:...is immediately obvious when ya' look at the majority of areas used as 'Test Sites' and the vast majority of people already subjected to the CWC...(let me guess, Aboriginal communities and/or persons-Ed)...spot on, including, I believe, those Aged Pensioners we mentioned previous, they're in Far North Queensland and/or the Torres Straight Islands...again, this issue has been repeatedly identified by various Indigenous organisations/advocates/community members...
The 2 most critical points relevant to any 'debate' about the reality of the Aged Pension going into/under Indue control are 1) since 2015, the then Treasurer, now PM Scott 'Scummo' Morrison repeatedly stating that the LNP considers the Aged Pension to be "a welfare payment for those who do not have the ability to save enough to fund their own retirement"...combined with 2) (then) Social Services Minister Anne Ruston explaining the LNP's agenda in this Sydney Morning Herald article (link below) from 1st February 2020...
And to conclude today dear availee, having considered all of the
things identified here-in, here's the link to the wholly and
deliberately erroneous ABC's pro-LNP 'Fact Check' that tries to dismiss
these real-time realities and actual impending probabilities as a 'Labor
scare campaign' originating from a Facebook post about a phone call to a politician's staffer...this title says it all - How an innocent Facebook post morphed into a rumour that helped fuel Labor's Cashless Debit Card scare campaign...and from in that 'article'..."this the story of how her post became part of a textbook case of political misinformation."...(wow, what a corrupted crock!-Ed)...indeed...("scare campaign...text-book case of political misinformation"...wow-Ed)...wait 'til ya' read the full piece...note the extreme detail the ABC can go into when trying to justify/quantify their "Scare Campaign" discourse, but they can't see any of the things we've discussed above...(especially the Scummo comments about "the Aged Pension is welfare", and his/Ruston's statements about applying these controls nationally, and the fact that it's already legislated for-Ed)...yep, it's very SKY News to ignore the vast amount of contradictory info/facts when pursuing their specific dialogue/agenda...enjoy...
In researching this post I was stunned to find the AAP (Australian Associated Press) making the same "false claims" argument as the ABC's "scare campaign", so I've included the link (below), but the facts as explained above dismiss these 'false claims' assertions as being themselves quite erroneous...(mate, the AAP's statement that, quote, "There is no evidence the government intends to put all age pensioners on cashless welfare cards, a measure not permitted under existing legislation." is fundamentally false, on both counts-Ed)...well quite...(there are clear statements from the LNP that they 1) consider the Aged Pension to be welfare, 2) intend to expand CWC to "all welfare", and 3) it's already legislated to be activated whenevs the government wants to-Ed)...mate, I have a lotta' respect for the AAP, but I don't know why they've done this, it's simply wrong...
Also gunna' include this link (below) to a Twitter thread related to this story...it covers some stuff already appearing in this post, but also includes some interesting bits, eg, footage of MP Ruston talking about the national roll-out, how 20+ jobs were recently added to expand it, etc...
https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1516862186559180801
Tomorrow: Why I Have The Responsibility To Speak About The Solomon Islands
Been heaps in the news about the Solomon's Islands signing a 'Security Pact' with China...(yet another stellar performance from our illustrious leader Scott 'Scummo' Morrison-Ed)...indeed, his hubris and ignorance and incompetence is writ large in the National Consciousness, and nowhere more obvious than with his gross mis-handling of this entire issue, our relations with all nations in the Pacific...(but why do you have a "responsibility"?-Ed)...well, a slight exaggeration, but I only recently learned that the Distinguished Service Order my grandfather was awarded in World War II, was in fact the first DSO awarded in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, on commendation of the United States of America Air Force, for 'acts of bravery' leading multiple flying missions from and running the airstrip, etc, at Torokina in the Solomon Islands in 1943/44...(wow-Ed)...so there's it's a specific familial link if not an actual responsibility, but we'll get into that more tomorrow...
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