Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has slammed the Greens’ opposition to the cashless welfare card
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- Created: Thursday, 16 June 2016 22:36
- Written by Jennifer Sexton - The Daily Telegraph
ANDREW “Twiggy” Forrest has slammed the Greens’ opposition to the cashless welfare card, saying their supporters had the blood of indigenous children on their hands.
“If you vote for a politician that is trying to get in the road of attaching family benefits to parents who send their kids to school and taking family benefits off those parents who don’t care if their kids go to school or not ... you have the blood of those little children on your hands,” Mr Forrest yesterday told The Daily Telegraph.
The Greens cite human rights in opposing the Turnbull government’s new welfare cards, which quarantines 80 per cent of welfare benefits from being spent on gambling and alcohol.
Mr Forrest said a trial of the welfare card in Ceduna in far-west South Australia had resulted in more food being purchased and the departure from the town of its main drug dealer.
“Calling it a human right to be able to blow your brains out on ice as much as you like with your welfare cheque — I’m saying your appreciation of human rights is so narrow it cannot be defined beyond that wine glass in your hand.
“I know exactly the path which leads to someone becoming a trafficked child or a pimped little girl and I’m asking every Green voter to not send our children down that path because you cling to some extremely narrow view of human rights and ignore the rights of the child.”
The government’s cashless welfare cards stop 80 per cent of benefits going to “the ice dealer or the crack dealer or the sly grog runner”, Mr Forrest said.
“It would go to the school books and the food, things which keep young families and mum and dad healthy.”
