Comments by "SIMON TAHITI" (@positivepawpaw7564) on "Scrapping cashless debit card ‘without consultation’ is ‘wrong’" video.

  1. During the welfare card trials, Indue has received between $4,000 to $10,000 for each participant in the trial, even though the Newstart allowance is less than $14,000 per year. Certainly, there are start-up costs involved in servicing this type of program, but up to $10,000 for a private company to manage an account only worth up to $14,000 annually raises questions of whether the Indue company is the most cost-effective option for this scheme. It also raises the question of why Indue was chosen in the first instance, especially when the expertise and experience provided by the National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac or ANZ would have been far superior. Up to June 2018, the amount received by Indue was at least $8.8 million and, reportedly, up to $21.9 million as at August 2019. If the roll-out of the cashless welfare card is extended on a widespread basis – as many Liberal and National MPs are now calling for – the value of the Indue company, and the shares held by Anthony and other Liberal and National party operatives will increase exponentially. Who else will benefit from the expansion of Indue? Just like the expansion of ABC Learning in the early 2000s, Indue has become a magnet for insiders wanting to cash in on government largesse. How much money is Indue donating to Liberal and National party branches around Australia? Why was Barnaby Joyce so vociferous in his support for raising the Newstart allowance by $75 per week? Joyce has been in Parliament since 2005 and has never once made a call to increase any form of welfare payment. Why the sudden interest?
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