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Welfare
August 2024
Consumer watchdog urges crackdown on businesses using Centrepay to cause financial harm
It is alleged energy companies deducted money from welfare payments of people, including Indigenous Australians, who were no longer customers
July 2024
Australia news live
Aurora australis may be visible, BoM says – as it happened
AFP dismisses allegation witness gave false evidence to robodebt royal commission
Corporate regulator urges crackdown on Centrepay after more than 40% of businesses found to be non-compliant
‘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
1 July changes: tax cuts, Centrelink indexation and everything else coming for 2024-25
Shadow energy minister says system in ‘dire trouble’ – as it happened
Watchdog to examine corruption commission’s robodebt decision after complaints of alleged ‘corrupt conduct’
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
Inequality reporting
Australian job providers under investigation for demanding payslips from jobseekers
Origin Energy wrongly took $2.5m from nearly 3,000 ex-customers via Centrepay
May 2024
Grogonomics
Raising jobseeker is not ‘fiscally sustainable’? Sorry, but that is flat out wrong
Greg Jericho
Inequality reporting
Disposable income soared for richest Australians after pandemic began but went backwards for the rest, report says
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