Cashless welfare card report does not support ministers' claims, researcher says

Janet Hunt says the government’s own final report on the effect the card has had does not prove a reduction in alcohol consumption, gambling or violence

A new research paper has issued a damning assessment of the quality of the report the Turnbull government has been using to promote its cashless welfare card trials, saying the report shows the program is not working.

Janet Hunt, the deputy director of the centre for Aboriginal economic policy research at the Australian National University, says the government has ignored serious flaws in the Orima Research report, which it released this month.

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