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Minister pushed on BasicsCard

Patricia Karvelas pushes Amanda Rishworth on her answers about the BasicsCard, given that it is no different, in principle, to the Indue card, and Rishworth says:

Well, our commitment in the election was to abolish the cashless debit card which we're doing ...

We never said there would be the end of income management.

We've said that we want to work with communities in the Northern Territory, about what the future of that type of income management looks like.

So I would like to have a lot of consultation about that, but our first step is the cashless debit card and we need to meet with people individually - if they don't contact Services Australia to make sure that transition is smooth so I'm not underestimating the job of transitioning over 17,000 people off that card.