Australia’s social services minister opens up domestic violence hotline to the workplace
, her first since assuming the social services portfolio, Rishworth made a number of other significant commitments including:
Rishworth said she wanted to now expand the hotline to video conferencing and text messaging by July next year, so that more vulnerable Australians would feel comfortable accessing the service.The Sun-Herald“And so one of the other elements we’re exploring is how we provide both SMS support and video conferencing for those that might want a more personalised response or a different type of response.
The move will complete a 10-point plan agreed to between the states, territories and the Commonwealth in 2018. But Rishworth said the evidence for the card’s effectiveness “just isn’t there to show that the cashless debit card actually did what it was intended to do”. “We will be looking at ... both the technological aspects of the Basics Card and how it’s applied to communities,” she said. “But that will take some time as we first deal with the cashless debit card.”dropped plans to review the JobSeeker rateBut Rishworth said Albanese’s commitment was to “take each budget cycle as it comes” and there would be no hike in the October budget.
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