Back Benches August 17 2011

THIS WEEK ON BACK BENCHES: Watch Wallace Chapman, Damian Christie, the Back Benches Panel and special guests discuss the week's hottest topics!

REFORMS, REFORMS, REFORMS: National has pledged an overhaul of the welfare system and they're starting with young people.  But are the solutions proposed by the Government the best way to stop people from becoming life-time beneficiaries? Is about more training? Or job creation? Is stopping 16 & 17 year olds from buying (illegally)
& cigarettes the right move? Why not make it harder for adults to use their benefit checks to buy their booze & cigs? Is a payment card the right move or is it just another form of stamps? ACT says the moves don't go far enough without introducing youth ?

Join us for a night of LIVE pub politics from the Backbencher Pub: , 17th of August. Our Panel: Green Party MP Dr. Kennedy Graham, MP Carmel Sepuloni, and National MP Michael Woodhouse.