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Category: Welfare Recipients

September 12, 2019 Drug Policy Welfare Recipients

How philosophy 101 could help break the deadlock over drug testing job seekers

Proponents and critics of drug testing welfare recipients are repeating the same arguments. Here’s how to break the deadlock. from www.shutterstock.com Alison Ritter, UNSW The...

September 9, 2019 Welfare Recipients

Drugs don’t affect job seeking, so let’s offer users help rather than take away their payments

Drug testing risks further marginalising welfare recipients. Iakov Filimonov/Shutterstock Nicole Lee, Curtin University The Morrison government is having another shot at getting its proposal to...

August 24, 2017 Drug Policy Published LTE Welfare Recipients

Drugs test is a fail

The following letter written by Bill Bush, President, Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform was published in the Canberra Times on Thursday 24 August,...

May 10, 2017 Media Welfare Recipients

Drug testing for welfare payments is a retrograde step

MEDIA RELEASE Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform (FFDLR) is appalled at the government’s retrograde step of linking drug tests to welfare payments in...

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