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Welfare

August 2024

  • The Minister for NDIS Bill Shorten during question time in the house of representatives chamber of Parliament House in Canberra this afternoon. Tuesday 13th August 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia

    Bill Shorten using ‘power of persuasion’ to unseal restricted section of robodebt royal commission report

    Both Anthony Albanese and Shorten point out it was not supposed to remain secret for ever, but the minister says his hands are tied
  • Silhouette and shadow of woman walking on a street.

    Major job provider accused of trying to get jobseeker to sign off on false work invoice

    Woman claims APM threatened to cut off her jobseeker payment after she refused to sign false time sheet. APM denies any wrongdoing

    • Centrepay report that found major failings ‘ignored’ by successive Coalition governments, author says

    • Media exposure has forced the government’s hand on Centrepay. The contrast with robodebt could not be more stark

    • Consumer watchdog urges crackdown on businesses using Centrepay to cause financial harm

July 2024

  • Aurora australis as seen from Elwood, Victoria, in May this year

    Australia news live
    Aurora australis may be visible, BoM says – as it happened

  • Signage is seen in the media room at the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme in December 2022

    AFP dismisses allegation witness gave false evidence to robodebt royal commission

  • Woman handing over a card at retail checkout

    Corporate regulator urges crackdown on Centrepay after more than 40% of businesses found to be non-compliant

  • Centrepay Composite

    ‘Unscrupulous’ businesses abused Centrepay to take welfare money from women fleeing domestic violence, advocacy groups claim

  • Australia news live
    Greens and academics criticise appointment of antisemitism envoy – as it happened

  • Abolished cashless debit card still divides, two years after Labor ordered its demise

June 2024

  • Unrecognisable young mother holding baby son in her arms

    1 July changes: tax cuts, Centrelink indexation and everything else coming for 2024-25

  • A gas burner on a stove

    Shadow energy minister says system in ‘dire trouble’ – as it happened

  • Gail Furness

    Watchdog to examine corruption commission’s robodebt decision after complaints of alleged ‘corrupt conduct’

  • A person in a supermarket aisle

    Inequality reporting
    Average jobseeker has $135 weekly shortfall on basic costs, report finds

  • First Dog on the Moon
    Robodebt knackers the Nacc! In this country, justice is only for the powerful

  • IT expert wins long-running freedom of information court battle over robodebt documents

  • ‘Ineffective’ NSW child protection system failing tens of thousands of children, auditor general finds

  • Robodebt: national corruption watchdog’s decision not to investigate officials angers victims and whistleblowers

  • AGL thought it was doing welfare recipients a ‘favour’ when refunding money it wrongly collected, court hears

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