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Welfare quarantining in order to re-instate Racial Disrimination Act?

Racial discrimination act delayed as welfare rules extended * Patricia Karvelas * From: The Australian * June 22, 2010 THE Racial Discrimination Act, suspended for welfare quarantining in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, will not be reinstated until December.Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said it would take some time for it to be fully reinstated after the government passed new laws to make income quarantining apply to indigenous and non-indigenous Australians…..
It comes as the Senate passed new welfare quarantining measures in the Northern Territory which will extend to all those on welfare in the Territory, indigenous and non-indigenous. From next year, the government will consider rolling it out to selected communities, pending a review of its effectiveness…..
welfare groups are opposed to the new laws.The former chief minister of the Northern Territory, Clare Martin, who is now chief executive office of Australian Council of Social Service, said the scheme was expensive and poorly targeted. “The government is willing to gamble $410 million over the next five years to manage 20,000 people in the Northern Territory,” she said.

“Per head, this is eight times the amount provided to an employment services provider to help someone find a job.”

Racial discrimination act delayed as welfare rules extended | The Australian

June 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL | aboriginal, Australia