πΏππ#WILFUL_IGNORANCE_ is unacceptable.
There's only so many times we can share the same facts and demand those in positions of authority are held accountable for their wilful ignorance before we just remove the cushion and let ministers telling fibs just fall on their egos.Attached in images below are responses given by Sussan Ley MP (LNP) to an SNS community member. You can see yet again, the same regurgitation of the party line, full of misinformation and outright lies, only this time in a seemingly 'caring' tone. Someone got their money's worth at empathy school it seems.
Read through more than once, you will likely see as we have, there is not a single independent thought in this response, just a smiling face presenting yet more dogma and not one actual emotion or expression of genuine awareness of the issues impacting people on cards and their families. There is no insight into actual struggles being faced, let alone potential impacts to come and not one mention of the issues of peoples human rights, consumer rights or privacy either. Ms Ley completely sidesteps the issues of forced exclusion and segregation posed to her by the person who wrote in.
So, and tired as we are of repeating ourselves, yet again we make the following again:
- Keith Pitt took employment data from the entire Wide Bay Region and tried to claim it was only from the CDC trial zone. Unemployment in the trial zone has NOT dropped 10% and overall unemployment nationally is now up as well. Keith lied, to everyone about this 'data' and was caught out the moment he did by us and Aus Greens. See:
www.facebook.com/SAYNOSEVEN/photos/a.275354549526033/812731222455027/?type=3&theater- At no time has ANY trial data shown an decrease in drug alcohol or gambling. 8 people "drinking less" is not representative of systemic improvement or even alcohol sales. Not even the Orima report made this claim - a report that showed that for 77% of people, there had been no positive outcome. Ongoing statements of "41%" reductions in drinking, gambling and drug use" are lies, based on the repetition of a false data set by the LNP. See: The Percentage Deception: How the Morrison government are fudging the Orima data percentages:
The Auditor Generals office itself has stated there is NO EVIDENCE that the CDCT has reduced social harms. Google the ANAO report, and see for yourself.
- Smoking is not prohibited on the CDCT and the "use of illegal substances' as a justification for the trials is a crock. We already know that people the department has determined are at risk, addicted persons and people incapable of financial self management are already catered for under the DHS/DSS income management platform. They are also EXEMPT from the CDC trials. Indue Cashless Card policy was never about Drugs Alcohol Gambling or people "at risk". Here's why:https://www.facebook.com/SAYNOSEVEN/photos/a.275354549526033/757773541284129/?type=3&theater
Addiction is a HEALTH issue, one of social welfare, not social security entitlements and illicit substance use is not limited to the 'welfare class' by any scope or measure. Government is not mother, father or nanny, and if we are to have sanctions on public funds for the express purposes of thwarting their use on the national past time of abuse of illicit and non illicit substances, then why not make this clause Australia wide relevant to ALL public money including franking credits, parliamentary wages and entitlements, subsidies to industry and businesses etc? To target the minuscule payments of the poor is vindictive and a wholesale political distraction.
ABS data has shown people on centrelink actually purchase less alcohol than any other cohort in the country and Scott Morrison's toilet water testing showed that Canberra was the highest illicit drugs use ( Cocaine, Heroin and Oxycontin) in the nation - so why not start the policy there? Given how many members of parliament are drunk and high in the House on a regular basis, so much so that PH has to have a sobering up room off the chamber, why target predominantly aboriginal communities and low income communities at all?
- The assumptions and presumptions that form the basis of CDC stigma are inherent to the policy , not just in the use of an identifying physical card. The stigma is in the policy itself and exacerbated by the LNP in their social engineering and policy marketing tactics that have led to increased social stigma of the poor and its impacts that are affecting people very day on the ground from shop fronts to school yards.
The stigma of the CDC is evident externally in EXCLUSION from community activities, SEGREGATION from regular shopping and banking life and in the application of HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES and sanctions without just cause or proof of delinquency. The stigma is experienced inwardly, in the usurping of autonomy, self determination, CHOICES, and freedom.
The arrogant presumption alone, that people on centrelink payments are NOT being responsible and are not already managing their incomes as best as they are able is a condescending, patronizing and ultimately abusive 'happy clapper' moral ideology being theocratically imposed without just cause nor any data or proof of the claim - it's just a judgement, not a fact, a specious self righteous sales tactic not the application of evidence based policy.
- The statement made by Ms Ley that CDC impacts the level of sexual assault in trial regions is perhaps the most vile manipulation we've seen for a while. It is clear Ms Ley has no idea how many children and young girls have been assaulted and so, impacted by the card negatively. She has no clue as to the real world impacts of forced cashlessness on families and communities, and she seems to know nothing of the rise of DV and the influx of predators and perpetrators into trial zones. Ms Ley is at best, grotesquely under informed.
Two notable child sexual predation arrests, one a staffer from the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the other, the ex WA premiers son both in income managed regions, both caught plying children with cash and alcohol, clearly disprove her claims. We know from reports to us, from lived experiences, that cashlessness makes people MORE vulnerable to sexual abuses not less.
The Orima evaluation itself left out DV data, citing 'privacy' yet under questioning in the Senate public hearings 2017, records quoted by the superintendent of police East Kimberly stated DV reports were at "historic highs". This only underscores Ms Leys error and the extent LNP is willing to go to hide the facts and actual data that was available. If it doesn't suit the party line, they simply remove and conceal it. Adelaide Uni had better not make the same mistake. We will be watching.
- We have posted here a dozen times the nature of so called 'consultations' and steam rolled "roll outs". Scroll down to see how communities themselves describe the process. The process has not been consensual, the process has been manipulation after manipulation, strong arm thug tactics in some regions, grafting/bribes and promise making in others. DHS and DSS have, time and time again, lied, deceived and excluded. See:
www.facebook.com/SAYNOSEVEN/photos/a.275354549526033/820687421659407/?type=3&theaterWITHDRAWAL of consent to participate in trials has been a feature of this policy since late 2016, when just months after first trials began, MOU signatories removed their consent. Over time more and more have joined them, even the Creating Parity report's co-author Marcia Langton, once the loudest of pro card voices, now describes the roll outs as BRUTAL and says the government GOT IT WRONG.
Today, and external to LNP ministers and their allied supporters, not one national agency, not one welfare group or charity that is not LNP allied or dependent, not one Aboriginal corporation group or community, not one independently COMMUNITY authorised voice has given their support for trial continuation.
You need only head to the current bill page and read the submissions for yourself to see proof of this. Those agencies not gagged or held hostage by the LNP by existential funding need, have spoken. The LNP stand alone.
Ms Leys parting comments, that 'all the previous difficulties have been fixed' could not be more wrong or deceitful. Scroll down a way on this page, and see why for yourself. It is almost laughable a person in her position can be so naive and so willfully ignorant. If lives were not at stake, we'd dismiss her. We can't. Ms Ley must be held to account. Her entire reply, is a very good lesson in passive marketing and self serving propaganda, nothing more.
Has Ms Ley actually read the report she attached, she may have informed herself. Sadly, its clear she hasn't
- SNS
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