A Senate report has endorsed plans to expand income management from Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to selected welfare recipients across the country.
The main report written by the Labor members of the Senate committee supports the Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin's plan to expand welfare quarantining but the Federal Opposition and the Greens have written dissenting reports..
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says the Government cannot claim that expanding welfare quarantining will mean the policy is no longer discriminatory.
Written on Friday, 12 March 2010 15:00 by Matthew Leonard