A United Nations expert has slammed Australia's controversial Centrelink robo-debt scheme and cashless welfare cards as both being"unduly punitive and unduly harsh".
Robo-debt is an automated Centrelink debt recovery system and cashless welfare cards quarantine a certain portion of welfare payments so the money can only be spent on essential items.Professor Alston, who is Australian, said these highlight the Morrison government's"obsessive focus on the fraud dimension [in the welfare system] in order to achieve other political goals".The robo-debt scheme matches tax office and Centrelink data to claw back overpaid welfare payments.
The report said that digitisation of welfare is"presented as an altruistic and noble enterprise designed to ensure that citizens benefit from new technologies".
Where will they get the money to feed their addiction if we implement cashless welfare cards. This is why it use to be called social security, because it prevented social anarchy and violent crimes for money! It costs way more to house them in prison, when they commit crimes.🙄
Good on ScoMo!!! Tell them to Eff off . Aussies aren't bludgers. Don't like it? .... tell your story swimming.
Dear SBS, the Australian people voted the current government to implement its economic, immigration and welfare policies. The Australian people did not vote for a 'United Nations expert' to give their irrelevant opinions.
Let me go ahead and scratch Australia off my 'places to retire' list.
contractcmo and contrary to all evidence viz health, and life ourcomes
'The digital welfare state is presented as an altruistic enterprise to ensure citizens benefit from new technologies, experience more efficient government, and enjoy higher levels of well-being.' That's the rhetoric. The reality is intrusive govt and surveillance systems.
Now I know that ~65-70% of Australians love the idea of more crackdowns...if only to spite the UN. Auspol
Doesn't IPA stand for I Prefer Arseholes, explains their support for the Lying Nasty Party
In the meantime there are thousands of human rights violations, war crimes and genocides around the world that they could be commenting on. It's inappropriate fot them to comment on a domestic welfare policy. Goes to show that what they've become.
Ha! That would be the same UN human rights commission that has a bunch of gay killing, women oppressing and child abusing nations on it...
🖕🏼 UN
As a cyclist who thanked my pedestrian side-step for him to pass ' it is a bit stingy '. That is this mongrel kicking - it is stinggee
One must understand the self righteous definite culture of Born Again Christians ... not having same beliefs results in punishment ... harsh and punitive.. Welfare is a punishment for not believing in prosperity of God’s children
So ashamed to be Australian thanks to these criminals above the law and the shit eaters who accidentality elected them on lies. auspol
ignoramus , arrogant Lnp government don't care ! This fool government wouldn't budge even if a lightening bolt hit them , they're embarrassing Australia to the rest of the world , Aussie public just tell any foreign people that we the public aren't anything like this government
Imagine the tax system was geared in that way … large numbers of notices being sent out, reclaiming tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars from wealthy taxpayers and saying that all sorts of things would be suspended if they don't pay. That hasn't happened, that wouldn't happen
An unconstitutional blatant funnelling of taxpayer dollars to a private organisation directly affiliated to the Liberal Party. Corruption in broad daylight!
But it makes loads of cash for his mates!
We, the people, do. It’s disgusting in every way
It stop people wasting there money on cigarettes gambling tattoos alcohol etc they have to buy food and what is important un needs to f... off
That's the same UN that let people get slaughtered in front soldiers who were not authorised to stop the slaughter because the UN wouldn't allow it. Go figure that one out. UN are criminals.
10k.
What credibility does the most intransparent, least democratic and most corrupt international institution have left?
Pentecostal Morrison's religious belief is that poverty is an individual failing and that the poor must be punished, harshly, to get them to try harder...
Putting LTGB killing countries on the ‘Human rights Council’ is unduly harsh
Unhinged Nobodies.
Right on all counts. What about people that do not want others too know they sre in assisted payments. What a cop out
You still trying to hide paedophiles in your mist ScottMorrisonMP ?
The UN just elected Venezuela, Libya & Mauritania to their Human Rights Council. The UN has lost all credibility.
Australia is shits!
X being an unknown quantity and a spurt being a drip under pressure.
I don't think the people who elected the shit show that is the Human Rights Council have any business lecturing anyone on human rights.
Who gives fuck about what UN thinks of Australia. I am proud of Scomo everytime he ignores them.
Yet the UN doesn't see their appointments of Venezuela, Mauritania, Sudan and Libya to the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body responsible for promoting and protecting all human rights around the globe as an issue? Go figure. Robo-debt is somehow more important.
A spokesperson for Mr Robert's office said... 'appreciate wanting to relate his report to Australia, but the report is really directed elsewhere' You mean all those other countries with Robo-debt and a cashless welfare card?
With the amount of money Australia pumps into the UN (UN-elected) nobody would need to be on Centrelink. Just who are they to tell us how to run our country. stopfundingtheUN
Stuff the UN
Memo , read the tea leaves on this, the UN is on the nose, and at best, irrelevant.
He’s not Christian. He’s the Liar from the Shire. With deep connections to the Freeasons. Did he convert to Pentecostalism in 2005 as a believer or on assignment? To discredit Jesus Christ? What’s obvious?
Calling it out for what it is!
The real criminals are our politicians that cover for the 250 companies in Australia which each avoid enough tax, every 3 months to pay a Centrelink payment for every single Australian for 5 years! auspol
Expert what
Unreal hey
Get lost UN you are not elected in this country so you have zero say. Go and find something useful to do.
parradiddle That shit was criminal and caused huge amounts of suffering to the most vulnerable people in this country and the government should be fvxking eviscerated for it.
LNPvoterfail The UN keeps saying our policies are cruel and inhumane and our government says “so what?” and dreams up more evil 😞auspol
Australian authorities penalise it's citizens excessively to the extent it has become a source of revenue and budget line item for councils, state governments and others. Sick.
The UN should just keep their opinions to themselves , they dont own or run this country 😡
How dare those unelected UN bureaucrats tell our elected government what is right and what wrong for our country? Who asked for their opinion? We pay their salaries so they can keep on insulting us
I don't think the average Aussie gives a hoot about what the UN thinks about our govts policy . They need to focus on countries with appalling human rights issues such as Saudi Arabia and China not our Democracy
The robo- debt is very badly run. When it first started vulnerable people would get a bill-then when they went in to centrlink to ask about it no one would help them. An accountant should be checking these bills before they are sent out!
The UN elected the Venezuelan Maduro regime (that’s starving their own people) to UN’s human rights council. The UNHR is now almost fully populated by some of the worst UNHUMANRIGHTSABUSERS on the planet. DefundUN UNcanGof__kitself
The photo in the article is Richard Alston not Philip
Dear UN please sort out your newest edition Venezuela. Thank you
Just who put the U N in charge of what happens in Australia We really need a general referendum asking the question should we leave the U N YES or NO
Way to go Scomo keep on ignoring the UN.
Onya Scomo.
Our own Australian Phillip Alston, telling his country a few home truths. Thank you Phillip. Always liked your support for people who go through hard times.
The UN should butt out of Australia and do something useful like tackling China's treatment of people and the way they are taking control of the South China Sea. The UN won't because they know they can do nothing. The UN is a toothless tiger. Costs a lot, does little.
The UN can F off as they don’t pay taxes here !!
Hackers can you please tweet every single financial transaction ScottMorrisonMP makes from his personal banking accounts. Maybe then he'll get it🙄
Wait, what? Who runs Australia? UN get fucked.
ScottMorrisonMP please ignore all requests from the UN from now on. We want Australia to be run by Australians
Let’s get rid of the useless UN
A UN expert Piss off SBS.
LOL “UN expert”
Whose the expert - someone from corrupt and broken Venezuela
As if Morrison cares! he's a Hellsong CULT zombie and NOT a true Christian!
The U N can just piss off, along with all their promoters,
The UN is an irrelevant entity. As for the 'expert' well,.......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Stay strong ScottMorrisonMP.
So I guess we will file that in the negative globalism pile. Pile sure is getting big.
When the UN stops promoting human rights offenders to the human rights council, I will pay more attention to their stance on our welfare system.
The expert is Professor Philp Alston, the highly respected brother of Richard Alston, a former Australian Liberal Party senator and a former Federal leader of the Liberal Party.
Once upon a time a corrupt Govt would be exposed by the media & brought down by the people's protest but these days they get away anything hopefully 4 Corners exposes this welfare card scam
A ' United Nations expert ' sounds pretty far fetched to start with. The only thing they are expert at are turning a blind eye to despots.
Expert my arse
Well let’s just tear the whole thing up if the UN said. Their judgment is without peer, only they could see what we couldn’t. They elevated Bahrain, Congo and Saudi Arabia to the human rights commission.Luckily they r running out of money and won’t c the year out. UN & EU gone 🥳
A smokescreen because we mine coal..and plenty of it..
The UN can say whatever they want. They are not Australian and not running this country. I have no problem with frauds being caught and made to pay back tax payers money.
Punitive yep that sums up the Australian way 👍🏻
Isn’t “United Nations expert” an oxymoronic statement?
Butt out UN you weren’t elected to run this Country
UN 'expert' an oxymoron if ever I've seen one.
The UN is run by socialists. They only know how to blow other people’s money. Get rid of them altogether and give that money to our farmers in need. Much better use of the coin
With Morrison & Dutton at the helm, it will always be so. Greed and cruelty are the only thing they know. This must end soon, when opposition grow a spine? Get to it or get out. auspol Greens Independents ALP any respectable LNP people left? Now's the time to shine 😥💚💜❤
Tell UN to mind their own business , people in glass houses and all that
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That's an oxymoron 'UN' & 'expert' - they're opposites. In any event, who cares what Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nth Korea & Pakistan want to say about Australia's track record on human rights or how it supports ppl on welfare when they're disgusting & appaling jokes auspol
U.N. also thinks slave state Mauritius and dictator State Venezuela deserve to be on their Human Rights Council. Should we also put in place policies of these states it honours?
And while government surveilles, investigates, judges, punishes and legislates us for moral and fiscal 'wrongs' they refuse to have a federal ICAC, refuse police interviews and hide their wrongs behind 'national security'.
They can get stuffed! We The People did not elect them
UN corrupt communists.Too gutless to take on middle east,sharia, gay rights
As they should!
They left out unsocialistic..
'UN expert' = oxymoron.
Screw the UN. I didn't vote for them.
The UN need to mind their own business. When they have given seats to Venezuela and Saudi to the human rights council.....you know something is incredibly corrupt. It's all about the NewWorldOrder
Good grief, the Lnp over the past 6 years have totally trashed our reputation & have no intention of changing their ways. They are so arrogant that they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks of us. The UN & now Attenborough have rightfully criticised them, but ... meh! 🤷♀️
The cashless welfare card is just another socialist scam. Socialism is not only not welcome into Australia, it is a scourge on society.
Another 'expert' trying to justify his no doubt considerable salary.
pteModil Handing over social security to private operators / donors of the Liberal Party gouging taxpayers money yet again.
The UN have obviously been contacted by the Labor Party to do them a favour. This is how the collective left work.
AU joins a grow list of caring regimes that get slagged off by UN... If you want to see how kicking the poor when they’re down I suggest you visit UN HQ when it’s cold & chilly in NYC watch homeless with no shoes whilst 50yrds away there sit UN workers in an extremely warm bar.
The irony of the UN giving financial advise. Reading up on the system, it sounds like a great idea. If the welfare recipients don't like the system, they can do what the rest of us have to...… WORK.
You report junk
THANK YOU‼️‼️
The amount of people on here completely missing the point and directing hatred toward the UN. So I guess you're all in agreement with the cashless welfare cards then...I hope none of you ever lose your jobs.
So says the organisation that condones oppression of women in Saudi Arabia, persecution of gays in Iran, slavery in parts of Africa and the Middle East, and child prostitution in Central America. The day I listen to the UN is the day I cease being human. HumanRights auspol
Right, would this be the same UN that came up with the 'Iraq oil for food' programme, we'd be better off listening to the carnival fortune teller booth
SBS and UN pushing this rubbish, try telling the taxpayer they should hand more of their hard earned taxes to the state dependant people. Workers give their best, receivers say it’s never enough.
Nobody cares what the UN thinks 😝
Welcome to 1984 brought to you by Mr Smirky ScottMorrisonMP
Who care what the UN says! No one voted for them! auspol UnitedNations
UN should mind its own business. Irrelevant and outdated waste of money. Shut it down and get Asutralia out of it. Its a left-wing unelected farce
This same UN just elected Venezuela to the human rights council. The UN is corrupt as hell
The card forcing parents to actually spend money on food for their kids is evil, yes UN how about you go back to making warlords and dictators your pin up girls and we manage our country.
A UN expert? Who gives a flying fuck what they think? The UN is nothing but a corrupt den of criminals.
There are no experts in the United Nations.
We didn't elect the UN so I do not recognize this corrupted organisation.
This 'expert' should go to India, North Korea, Qatar and Saudi Arabia immediately and check on the welfare of real poverty-stricken people and migrant workers
We all know that the UN hates democracy (see the members of the UNHuman rights board for proof) so they can get stuffed and quit preaching Human Rights to a democractically elected govt. quittheUN defundtheUN
SBS is a communist propaganda machine besides that the UN can FO!
They’re a waste of time and money that does nothing except pay the public lip service, I pay $120 a Wk to my flat mate for board and I need another $150 to buy 2nd hand tyres out of the classifieds, there’s your cashless system scammed and I haven’t really even thought about it
Agree we should scrap welfare all together TaxationIsTheft
Why is Australia a signatory to the UN? Why does Australia retain its presence in what obviously is a body of authoritarian, corrupt, malevolent members, who condemn & dictate, when they are hypocritical representatives of foreign governments, who know not democracy? DitchTheUN
An expert in what? How to buy drugs with dole money?
The same UN that puts violent, murderous regimes on their human rights council to punish civilised nations for their wealth & quality of life? They have less than zero credibility and we need to ignore their sanctimonious whining.
Dear UN. We are taking a punitive and harsh attitude to welfare FRAUD. Now please return to the UN, I understand you are broke.
I don’t Like UN They cease to be valid but The Welfare Card is Cruel. If it’s for AGE Pension Were Told Tax Pay for Your Old Age Pension. My Brother Very ill he save for Funeral We can’t access . I payed all Gov take all his savings Cruel No Vote
UN has zero creditability
It depends who ? These Welfare Cards are for? If for Age Pension no Good My Brother Very I’ll die. He saved for funeral We can’t access. I payed. Those Age Pensioners were told tax pay Pension I Vote Liberal If Bring In never again
The UN is corrupt to the core. Their opinions on anything are literally worthless.
Any advice from the UN should be taken with a grain of salt or just flat out ignored
Is it the same UN that has China and Venezuela on its Human Rights Council? 🖕🏻
A number of years ago Australia would be at the forefront of international support against this right wing fascist con job, now we are leading the world in such outrageous authoritarian control model of the less well off. With $3,000 per indue card user FFS, & to Country Party!!
further broadening the gap between the poor and rich, even the middle class. The rich do not care about us until we stop making them money. This world is f****d about how we pay people for what they do. Movie stars, Sports stars, CEO's shame on them and hope they burn in hell!
You see now we are being watched. And world opinion matters. It trickles into the economy.
The UN will soon be getting a call from some debt collectors. Funny how those who over spend, blame those who lend.
The UN is just a farce run by countrys such as Russia, China, Turkey who are committing worse crimes than Australia. The robodebt and cashless card welfare system are designed to create bigger gaps in society. This then gives government/rich the power to segregate us even more
dae326426 Except for the last 6 years, when was the last time the UN has questioned any of Australians policies.
Agree!agree!
Yeah and they just put Venezuela on the human right board as well as Iran Iraq Saudi so yeah NA not going to listin to them
Lol it's at least there, why does the U.N stay quiet on so many many other human rights issues?
Nice again, who is the United Nations? And why on God’s earth do you think this socialist bumbling lot any airtime! Doesn’t the president of the UN like to “tip the bottle”:
If that's the United Nations view, then that probably means that the Centrelink robo-debt scheme and cashless welfare cards are good ideas.
Morrison does not listen to gossip....no need to reply😎
What?
What kind of a low life leader ignores the international community? A flog. auspol
Can the UN explain why so many people want to come Australia from all over the world?
PetraAu UN corruption
'United Nations Expert' Enough said.
The UN are a Joke just like with the Greens 👌
Unduly punitive and unduly harsh. That's the whole idea - RoboDebt is deliberately designed with the intention of driving poor people to suicide.
And we care why exactly? MRobertsQLD nyunggai ScottMorrisonMP
Especially when there are doubts about the credibility of this man - the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston. He did a report on poverty in the UK, which was, apparently, factually incorrect and highly biased. What a surprise, right?
That 'expert' is not an Aussie taxpayer. Who gives AF?
RMC974 Well duh
The same UN that is doing absolutely zero in yemen
The UN is a joke. No one really cares what they think old chaps.
Tell the 'United Nations expert,' that their view is beyond irrelevant. UN influence and credibility is about the same as the FakeNewsMedia at this point. That is to say, zero. But by all means keep pushing this socialist trash SBS. auspol pmlive outsiders
I don’t think the UN have much power over Australia. Time to rethink the 66 million we pay a year in membership. Divert some to farmers and our own people. UN needs a good overhaul and efficiency review.
Pesky negative globalism yet again.
Nobody cares what the UN says tbqh.
Faaaaark right off UN.
Tell the UN to get stuffed ScottMorrisonMP.
Here's an idea: FtheUN
The sooner we leave this corrupt mob the better. Read the expose. Sign the petition to exit.
As they are
That’s the idea....
We don't need the UN to tell us that, it's obvious and in character. LNP are Psychopaths
There are countless real injustices around the world and the UN focuses on this? Despite its form of payment, this is freemoney to unemployed citizens. The UN needs to get real and focus on genuine victims of real injustices.
Scott Morrison is useless and clueless.
Punitive and Harsh... Hmmm. Who does that sound like? bullshitboy
It vilified people
It's all about the surplus.. 😝
Lol
LNP's cruelty knows no limits...
Cloudsurfermike Yeah Boofhead Bill Shorten gave them a phone call a couple of weeks ago begging for support. 😂 yeah Robodebt is a shit idea, but for Green Labor to involve the UN is worse 😂
United Nations should butt out of our business!
We dont need a UN expert to tell us how draconian this happy Clapper lead lnp are. They're totally out of touch with the daily struggles & challanges facing a significant number of people especially those unemployed, under employed, homeless or with physical & mental disabilities
Yet another IPA/Liars massive decency fail & descent into 3rd world dictatorship behavior.
misskylie77 Well the faux Christian knew what was coming with his bullshit stab at the UN last week.
Liar from the shire happyclappersloganbogan ScottMorrisonMP
Yep, Scotty keeps going full flush as Australia's international reputation (and capacity to look at itself in the mirror) continues to go down the toilet. 🚽💩
The reincarnation of a fascist GOVERNMENT Mussolini would be proud of this mob
Finally the world is starting to find out that australia has a fascist GOVERNMENT treating the poor disgracefully and we a member of the UN since day one
Yes, and ScottMorrisonMP is not listening to experts, especially international ones.
Little bit corrupt as well, given the ownership of welfare cards by Government interests. Not to mention highly un-Christian in its approach of kicking the poor and vulnerable when they're down. Jesus would have no time for these pretenders in power.
The United Nations? Hahahahahah hahahahahaha you’re killing me hahahahahahah
The United Nations is a farce
MSMWatchdog2013 The RWNJS don't believe in UN
deniseshrivell truly unduly...
PhilipJohnBrow2 Is this what ScottMorrisonMP would call “negative globalism”?
mtdruittnoir 'Unduly Punitive and Unduly Harsh' in relation to Robodebt and Cashless Debit Card said Philip Alston UN Human Rights Expert from the UN. Extreme Poverty in Australia for unemployed and homeless people. Welfare Recipients are suffering extreme poverty. PHIL.
The UN can FO.
Maybe the UN don’t realize LNP OWN the Welfare Card Via a Group of Private Trusts. ILLALANGI is the Masta Trust for the Doug/Larry ANTHONY of the National Party
UN talks Australia a free democracy yet don’t hear much about China ? Pathetic
We are a penal colony after all
When are we getting out of the corrupt UN?
UN buzz off
Well, we didn't elect the UN expert to office.
Glad they're highlighting what we all already knew. Shame on our government 😠
Oh the outrage. We are slammed. Seriously, you pay a lot of money for a few years in uni to write this drivel? I miss investigate journalism articles.
how christian is that
He should call it out as fascism, but he's a Liberal and the UN is soft anyways.
This government isn’t a joke, it’s an epic and cruel disaster for random people on so many fronts of the Australian society. There cruelty knows no bounds.
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Who cares what the rent seeking UN thinks
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