Welfare

The Australian Greens today welcomed the launch of ‘Contexts of Child Development - Culture, Policy and Intervention’ by the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health.
 

"It is clear from Senate question time today that the Government has not thought through the impacts of their planned welfare quarantining trials for truancy," said Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert.
 

The Australian Greens today responded the Rudd Government's bill to allow welfare payments being cut, by vowing to oppose the passage of the legislation in the Senate.
 

The Australian Greens today condemned the Federal Government's plan to suspend the welfare payments of families of children who fail to attend school.

"Where is the evidence base that this punitive approach will actually work?" asked Senator Rachel Siewert today.

The punitive Cannington welfare trial, which involves suspending welfare payments to parents whose children play truant, and quarantining the income of those deemed 'at risk', is an old fashioned and wrong-headed approach to dealing with a serious problem according to the Australian Greens.