An unusual protest against basics cards has been going on in Darwin for weeks with zero media coverage .
A guitar strumming muso who has composed a protest song against the cards and his offsider have been demonstrating in the offices of Centrelink and NT Senators. At the end of one recent rendition of the clever song, the audience in a Centrelink office were told, “You have have just been treated to a performance by Kris Pistofferson. ” Attempts to get coverage of these protests appear to have fallen on collective deaf media ears.
Each time the campaigners have gone to the ABC, they have been told there are no reporters in the office.
However , they said they believe the fact that Rosemary Kunoth- Monks at far away Utopia this week said it was demeaning for many people on the basics card to have to ask for $50 of their money might encourage the Darwin media to do some basic reporting.
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