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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: WELFARE recipients to be segregated into different queues at shops under an apartheid system that will force them to spend money on essential items at government-approved retailers Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:36 am | |
| WELFARE recipients could be segregated into different queues at shops under an ''apartheid system'' that will force them to spend at least half of their money on essential items at government-approved retailers.
Business groups have condemned a federal government plan to control the spending of up to 20,000 people across the country by effectively making them shop at a handful of the biggest retail chains. And the Law Council of Australia has warned that the change could be discriminatory.
In a five-year trial to start next July, the government will quarantine between 50 and 70 per cent of welfare payments made to those deemed ''financially vulnerable'' or who have been referred by child protection authorities in five local government areas across Australia, including Bankstown in Sydney.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/welfare-card-pays-out-on-poor-20110806-1igid.html |
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