Services Australia is planning to deploy a new intelligence and investigation system that will allow it to cross reference customer data with information held by law enforcement and other third-party sources www.itnews.com.au/news/service... cc. @maximumwelfare.bsky.social @jeremypoxon.bsky.social

"An outsourced call centre operator for Centrelink paid no corporate tax for several years even after winning a major government agency contract worth tens of millions of dollars" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The devastated daughter of a man found dead at a Mornington Peninsula campground says her beloved dad had been waiting for public housing for years." archive.is/FCdSN#select...

This Disaster Recovery Payment lump sum is still the same rate as when it was introduced 20 years ago. If it had been indexed to CPI if would be more than $600 higher for an adult. www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...

with the crumbling of the welfare state and all public and cultural institutions, there's still one way to make a living as a writer or an artist: suing politicians for defo

logging on for the first time this year. helllo friends

Australian Gov Disaster Recovery Payment activated for people directly affected by bushfires in some areas in Victoria, Provides $1,000 for adults and $400 per child. Can claim from Wednesday 14/1 arvo www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/support-for-...

TCF scandal wrapped - Department got booted by the Ombudsman twice - Independent assurance couldn't assure the legality of the Mutual Obligations system - Secretary has now been fired - Her new interim replacement was responsible for the Deloitte AI debacle Read more: archive.is/4pBNV

we have a system has outright acknowledged that it needs a percentage of the population to be unemployed at any given time and then we squid games them at every chance as "incentive" to find a job that doesn't exist

The ombo's damning report about job agencies reveals the bumbling cruelty of our welfare surveillance state Because of the intentional, institutionally constructed, lack of info about punishment decisions, government doesn't know whether they're lawful www.themandarin.com.au/305305-ombud...

"The Albanese government is bracing for a wave of compensation claims from its automated welfare compliance system [the TCF], listing almost half a decade of potentially unlawful decisions as a new 'unquantifiable' Commonwealth liability." www.innovationaus.com/govt-braces-...

DEWR refusing to answer journalists' questions about why their Secretary was sacked (a week after another damning Ombudsman report into the Targeted Compliance Framework)

#BREAKING 🚨 DEWR Secretary Natalie James has been appointed Head of Innovation at NEOM: ministers.dewr.gov.au/rishworth/se...

Employment secretary, Natalie James, has now been yeeted 👀 www.themandarin.com.au/305013-depar...

Anthony Albanese says he will take a proposal for tougher gun laws, including limits on the number of firearms a person can hold, to National Cabinet when it meets on Monday.

Important call-out for O type blood donors. Make an appointment if you can: my.donateblood.com.au/app/utils/lo...

Institutionalised psychological abuse - an integral aspect of a system that blames individuals for govt choice to maintain unemployment

Despite two damning ombudsman investigations, this Department has learnt nothing. The fact that people regularly overturn unlawful suspensions of their payment does not justify unlawfully suspending their payment. It's incredible that this still needs to be pointed out

Been rather dispiriting how much ink has been spilled by the gallery on MP expenses, while the report into mutual obligations has been pretty much ignored. @amyremeikis.bsky.social is on it #ThePoint (what is The Point? It’s not news, but it SHOULD be) thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

It found that many people regularly receive misleading info from providers, that complaint processes are inaccessible, suspension & cancellation are regularly found to be wrong when reviewed, & that the process to compensate ppl for earlier unlawful decisions have been unfair & unreasonable. #Auspol

“let them be kids”

i would simply reform MPs' expenses so we don't have to endure scandals & discourse about it every two years, further eroding public trust in government

Sarina celebrates a lucrative Jobactive contract she got from the government "I've always said I wanted to be the Madonna of jobs and god we've done it"

critical mistake starting an NGO or think tank to influence social policy in this country. you should've started a breakfast radio team called Droggo & The FuckWeasel

you were warned (enjoy the nice surprise guest at the end)

“Social security law decisions are being made at a rate of millions a year, and we have extensive evidence of the problems with unlawful decisions on suspensions, and no action is being taken." Thank you @dholmesnoise.bsky.social @themandarin.bsky.social for reporting.

"our system of 'mutual' obligation relies on people continuing to stigmatise welfare as the moral failing of an individual....despite unemployment being baked into economic policy" - @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

"Anti-poverty and human rights groups are calling on the government to abolish the Targeted Compliance Framework, following a scathing report from the Commonwealth ombud" www.themandarin.com.au/304738-targe...

Incredible the difference I'm observing mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see

can a member of the press gallery please cover this significant ombudsman investigation to spare us all

"If you can't be grateful, you're feeling depressed. So let's just feel grateful" Merry Christmas and happy 2026 from Sarina Russo

#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇

This is incendiary stuff from the ombudsman. Effectively, govt doesn't give a tinkers cuss what happens to welfare recipients via 'jobs providers'. Dept: Breach away folks! Give those bludgers a what for! JA: Wanna see the figures? D: Absolutely not! We trust you implicitly. #Auspol

Statement on damning report into welfare 'mutual obligations'👇 greens.org.au/news/media-r... Today’s report confirms what any JobSeeker already knows: the ‘mutual obligations’ system is pointless, cruel, and rather than helping people, treats people on income support as disposable

Another booting for DEWR and Services Australia. #ausnews #auspol

#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇

Dear Lord. Centrelink says 144 different parts of its system have been operating unlawfully or erroneously. This scandal of 44k overpaid debts is just ONE of the 144 issues they say they've identified. The welfare system is in complete crisis & disarray

📢 Around 880 people could be owed more than $5,000 for debts that stretch back to 2007.

Secretary defends job providers' use of payment suspensions, as she's "interrogated the system in a very active way" So, she's asked about @antipovertycentre.org analysis, showing the system is threatening 5 payment suspensions a minute, & admits she didn't even check this data. Such interrogation!

Goodness me - wait times for the complaints line (NCSL) ballooned out to over an hour during this mutual obligations crisis From Nov 2024 to Sep 2025, 141, 704 calls were abandoned This is the line people need to call to, for example, get their payments turned back on after a wrongful punishment

nice - the Secretary responsible for the mutual obligations scandal is now getting a cool million www.themandarin.com.au/303716-the-a...

The government’s laws cancelling social security payments for some accused of crimes turn a safety net into a weapon for punishing people. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/with-a-...

As at 10 October 2025, there were 32,556 on income management (IM): - 9,598 on old IM (BasicsCard) and 22,958 on enhanced IM (SmartCard) - 6.7% (2,221) were voluntary, the rest under compulsory measures. - 82% (26,599) on IM identify as Indigenous. www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...

Today @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social succeeded in establishing new powers to cancel Centrelink payments before conviction. Thanks @senatorthorpe.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @pennyallmanpayne.com for trying to stop this dangerous law.

It's staggeringly unlikely this stupid power will ever be used. Congratulations to the Albanese Government and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social for embarrassing themselves, for insulting the welfare and legal sectors, and wasting everyone's time for no public or political benefit whatsoever.

So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed

Earlier, @davidpocock.bsky.social calls out Plibersek for saying critics of the amendment (to cut ppl's welfare before they're guilty) "are on the side of rapists & murderers" "What a way to make laws: to rush something through, point the finger at those who dare question these provisions"

Here, again, is the human cost of the government's unlawful system of payment suspensions Constant cycles of punishment that you cannot escape - even when you're in hospital www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...

Senator Thorpe criticises the government for ignoring these 100+ experts and groups to sneak the amendment through "without any scrutiny" "I'd be putting my head down in shame too, Minister"

New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today Read more: archive.is/UHu9J