Robo-debt resulted in deaths and mental anguish among thousands of welfare recipients but one of the people who shaped the policy claims she is a victim too.
Last week,the anti-corruption commission said it would not launch an inquiry into robo-debt. That decision is now the subject of an investigation by the NACC’s inspector.
The career public servant was left battling severe pain and nerve damage and is unable to return to work,but hopes beefed-up security will keep others safe.
Financial criminals are exploiting Australia’s worsening climate disasters and extreme weather events,including fires,floods and cyclones.
Services Australia is grappling with 1.1 million unprocessed health and welfare claims. Its new boss David Hazlehurst wants to halve that by the middle of this year.
The first time mother loved being home with baby Bernadette. But the months-long wait for parental leave payments became a financial problem.
The public service and Services Australia will be bolstered as the federal government vows to deliver “robo-justice” to welfare recipients affected by the Coalition’s unlawful debt recovery scheme.
A parliamentary inquiry has heard a senior public servant met the owners of Synergy 360 at the home of a co-owner while the firm was advising clients on Services Australia contracts.
The welfare agency is asking police to trawl through people’s metadata and in some cases crack their passwords to find out if they’re in a relationship.
Trish Price and her children are living in poverty while being owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support.
The revelations about the conflict of interest issues surrounding Services Australia’s dealings with Synergy 360 come after the release of a review calling for an investigation into contracts worth $374 million.