With a sneaky tweak, the government has made welfare recipients guilty until proven innocent
- Written by Zoe Staines, Senior Lecturer in Law and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
In the flurry of action in Parliament House in the final moments of the sitting year, the government passed a bill that escaped the attention of most.
New changes to social security law mean a person’s income support can now be cancelled because they are subject to an outstanding arrest warrant for a serious offence.
These are people merely...
