Jacqui Lambie finalises 'fact-finding mission' into cashless debit card in trial regions

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Jacqui Lambie finalises 'fact-finding mission' into cashless debit card in trial regions
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Senate crossbenchers will soon decide if trials quarantining welfare payments will be extended.

The fate of Australia's controversial welfare experiment — the cashless debit card — could rest with Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie and her whirlwind outback tour.The cashless debit card is designed to curb drug and alcohol abuse by limiting access to cash through quarantined welfare payments

Senator Lambie today finished her visits to cashless debit card trial sites in Western Australia, on what she has called a"fact-finding mission" into the card's success. The cashless welfare card operates in WA's East Kimberley and Goldfields, Ceduna in SA, and recently began inSenator Lambie said she had seen"good results" at the trial sites but told the ABC she would not reveal how she would vote.

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