Published: February 26, 2019
Human Rights Commission tells Senate inquiry that punitive impacts of the program risk ‘entrenching poverty and inequality’
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s president has strongly criticised the ParentsNext welfare program, arguing it breaches Australia’s human rights obligations and “risks further entrenching poverty and inequality”.
In notably scathing public comments at a Senate inquiry on Wednesday, Rosalind Croucher said the commission was “gravely concerned” about the punitive impacts of the program, which was rolled out nationally by the government last year.
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