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Government revives plan to drug test welfare recipients

The Morrison government is taking another tilt at convincing parliament to pass laws enabling drug-testing of welfare recipients.

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Welfare recipients who test positive for drugs will be placed on income management under legislation to go to federal parliament next week.

About 5000 new recipients of Newstart Allowance and Youth Allowance will be tested for a range of illegal drugs as part of a two-year trial to be rolled out in three locations - Logan in Queensland, Canterbury-Bankstown in NSW and Mandurah in WA.  

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