SYDNEY, Australia—Chanting “No income management, not here, not anywhere,” 70 people marched June 16 in Bankstown, west Sydney, to protest expanded “Stronger Futures” laws introduced by the Labor Party government and passed by the Senate June 29.

The laws extend so-called income management, imposed in the Northern Territory in 2007 as part of a federal takeover of almost all the Aboriginal communities there, for 10 years and expand them to working-class areas across the country. Under these measures, welfare agencies can “quarantine” up to 70 percent of welfare and pension payments onto “BasicsCards,” which can only be used for “essential” items at government-approved stores.

—BOB AIKEN