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@esayaf wrote:
How are those that rent from a landlord that will only accept cash going to pay their rent.
what about the shops that still don't have eftpos. Is pizza only for workers now.
This card will only increase the desire of welfare recipients to find some undeclared cash work. In fact it will make unscrupulous employers to be more likely to encourage it.
So many unthought of consequences

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you can get Centrelink to pay your mortgage or rent straight into your account.

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@esayaf wrote:
I use eBay to buy cheaper parts to fix my car. How am I to do that. If I can't buy parts on eBay and my local car part store doesn't accept the card and have to pay five times as much to a mechanic that does accept the card then what do I eat? Grass!

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Also the cheapest and best  veggies are available here in Melbourne from Vic Market, and various Asian shops in Richmond, and similar shops across the suburbs.  Will these shops and markets accept  these cards?  I shop for veggies in our local market where fruit and vegetables are often less than 1/2 what Coles or Woolworth sells them.  If pensioners are forced to shop in the big supermarkets, their buying power will diminish.

Alcoholics who want to get booze and cigarettes will always find way, just like junkies will always find cash to get drugs, even if it means stealing. 

This proposition is terribly patronising and unfair treatment of the most disadvantaged people in the community; actually, one way to make it fair would be for all incomes to be treated the same way.     Why not have the food/necessities card for everybody?

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@icyfroth wrote:

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you can get Centrelink to pay your mortgage or rent straight into your account.

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That makes no sense, that is what having this card is designed to avoid, because it is claimed that if alcoholic's rent was paid into their account, they could very well take it out and buy booze instead of paying rent. 

paid straight to the landlord or the mortgager, I mean.

 The only thing i can see it will do is more crime.

really! what world do these politicians live in certainly not the real world.