stories » Back to Basics on Welfare

Filter »

Back to Basics on Welfare

Show
Morning Magazine,
Presenter
Damian Smith
Published
Monday 15th March

It’s a pretty rough feeling when you get to the supermarket checkout and realise you can’t afford your groceries.

According to the head of the nation’s peak welfare group, embarrassed shoppers on the Federal Government’s income management scheme are being forced to return goods to the shelves in the Northern Territory.

Australian Council on Social Service chief executive Clare Martin is worried a planned national rollout of the Basics Card will only result in further indignity.

She spoke with Damian Smith on Morning Magazine.