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Income management for non-Indigenous welfare recipients will be rolled out across the Northern Territory from next month, after draft laws passed the Senate. Welfare quarantining was the cornerstone of the Howard government's 2007 intervention, designed to tackle child abuse in remote indigenous communities.

But Labor's legislation has extended income management to all disadvantaged areas of the Northern Territory. The new scheme will apply to the long-term unemployed, young people on benefits such as Youth Allowance and the Parenting Payment for more than three months, those at risk of financial crisis or domestic abuse and individuals referred by child protection authorities.

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