Eliminating cashless debit cards is great, but the government must be careful about what it does next
- Written by Mirella Atherton, Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle
AB F B B B D ED CThe Albanese government will keep its election commitment to abolish the cashless debit card. Cashless cards limited the financial autonomy of over 17,000 participants, a disproportionate number of whom are First Nations people.
The cashless debit card represents a payment partnership that has linked the welfare system with the...
