megpie71: Kerr Avon quote: Don't philosophise at me you electronic moron; answer the question (don't philosophise)
megpie71 ([personal profile] megpie71) wrote 2014-10-08 10:21 pm (UTC)

There's an interesting (for values of "interesting" which translate to "oh help!") line in there about the way the card has been tested out in the UK on asylum seekers - "Asylum seekers are a testing lab for how we treat those we don't care about."

If this holds true for the Australian experience, I suspect we'll see unemployed people (one of the demonised groups in Australia at the moment - our government is doing their level best to paint asylum seekers and Islamic terrorists as the enemy without; unemployed people and women in headscarves are the enemy within) being separated out from society even further than they are at present - "work for the dole" camps, maybe, out in the middle of nowhere.

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