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Robodebt whistleblower was told her royal commission evidence ‘could cost you your job’, court hears
By Christopher KnausExclusive: Jeannie-Marie Blake is suing the Australian government over alleged threats, which her department denies making
#Centrelinkdebtrecovery #Centrelink #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Welfare #TheGuardian #ChristopherKnaus
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Robodebt whistleblower was told her royal commission evidence ‘could cost you your job’, court hears https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/18/robodebt-whistleblower-was-told-her-royal-commission-evidence-could-cost-you-your-job-court-hears #CentrelinkDebtRecovery #Centrelink #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Welfare
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Robodebt whistleblower was told her royal commission evidence ‘could cost you your job’, court hears https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/18/robodebt-whistleblower-was-told-her-royal-commission-evidence-could-cost-you-your-job-court-hears #CentrelinkDebtRecovery #Centrelink #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Welfare
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Jobless treated same as offenders
#ausnews #vicnews #centrelink #homelessnes #poverty #wfd #jobnetwork #centrelink #courts #community #employment #training #skills -
Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/03/hundreds-of-thousands-centrelink-payments-cancelled-illegally-albanese-government-admits #Centrelink #Welfare #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews
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Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/03/hundreds-of-thousands-centrelink-payments-cancelled-illegally-albanese-government-admits #Centrelink #Welfare #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews
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"So, what's the problem?" (Moir 23/6/25)
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I hope this is positive, especially increased use of social and not-for-profit services.
There will be a separate unemployment welfare scheme for people who face complex barriers, such as older people, or those with medical or physical conditions.
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I hope this is positive, especially increased use of social and not-for-profit services.
There will be a separate unemployment welfare scheme for people who face complex barriers, such as older people, or those with medical or physical conditions.
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Labor to announce easing of jobseeker mutual obligations requirements in major overhaul of employment system https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/26/labor-to-announce-easing-of-jobseeker-mutual-obligations-requirements-in-major-overhaul-of-employment-system #Unemployment #Centrelink #AustralianPolitics #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #Business #LaborParty
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Labor to announce easing of jobseeker mutual obligations requirements in major overhaul of employment system https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/26/labor-to-announce-easing-of-jobseeker-mutual-obligations-requirements-in-major-overhaul-of-employment-system #Unemployment #Centrelink #AustralianPolitics #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #Business #LaborParty
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How Anthony Albanese's government, & others, are failing Australians by wasting their time and putting unneeded stress on them.MyGov website.
I need to have ID verified in person at a Centrelink office.
I seek to make an appointment.
I find and follow the instructions:
Sign in to myGov.
Select MENU from your homepage.
Select Documents and appointments, then Appointments and Manage appointments.No "Menu" is on the MyGov page.
AI Slop instructions -
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How Anthony Albanese's government, & others, are failing Australians by wasting their time and putting unneeded stress on them.MyGov website.
I need to have ID verified in person at a Centrelink office.
I seek to make an appointment.
I find and follow the instructions:
Sign in to myGov.
Select MENU from your homepage.
Select Documents and appointments, then Appointments and Manage appointments.No "Menu" is on the MyGov page.
AI Slop instructions -
Australians are reporting rising economic anxiety while Centrelink payments fall further behind reality.
Experts are now calling for real tax reform to boost support for those doing it toughest — instead of tinkering at the edges.
Wealth is growing at the top, but support at the bottom keeps shrinking. That’s a policy choice.#costofliving #centrelink #auspol #inequality #auspol #taxtherich
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Australians are reporting rising economic anxiety while Centrelink payments fall further behind reality.
Experts are now calling for real tax reform to boost support for those doing it toughest — instead of tinkering at the edges.
Wealth is growing at the top, but support at the bottom keeps shrinking. That’s a policy choice.#costofliving #centrelink #auspol #inequality #auspol #taxtherich
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"So, what's the problem?" (Moir, 10/4/26)
#ausnews #vicnews #moir #jobseeker #centrelink #jobsearch @WorkForce -
Sat down with a real person in front of me and sorted out a month-long ten-phone-call Centrelink saga in about twenty minutes. Sucks living rural but the whole free bus thing really helps.
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Sat down with a real person in front of me and sorted out a month-long ten-phone-call Centrelink saga in about twenty minutes. Sucks living rural but the whole free bus thing really helps.
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Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/12/robodebt-australia-centrelink-debt-whistleblower-justice-accountability-failed #Centrelink #CentrelinkDebtRecovery #AustraliaNews #NationalAnticorruptionCommission #Welfare
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Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/12/robodebt-australia-centrelink-debt-whistleblower-justice-accountability-failed #Centrelink #CentrelinkDebtRecovery #AustraliaNews #NationalAnticorruptionCommission #Welfare
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Putting my dad into a nursing home is turning into a way more stressful time than it should be as the Centrelink people have got the details on their assessment wrong and they won't admit it.
Anyone else in #Australia #tasmania had to go through this recently and give me some advice, or just chat?
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Putting my dad into a nursing home is turning into a way more stressful time than it should be as the Centrelink people have got the details on their assessment wrong and they won't admit it.
Anyone else in #Australia #tasmania had to go through this recently and give me some advice, or just chat?
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If you got ripped off in the #Robodebt debacle, you can register for this new class action settlement. Registration for the settlement is closing 6th March, so make sure to do it now.
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/new-robodebt-class-action-settlement
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If you got ripped off in the #Robodebt debacle, you can register for this new class action settlement. Registration for the settlement is closing 6th March, so make sure to do it now.
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/new-robodebt-class-action-settlement
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Centrelink: Please choose your own misadventure.
To use our online system, go to centrelink.gov.au
When our online system fails to work, go to your local Centrelink office. Oh, wait, we closed that.
You could try phoning, if fighting your way through chatbot menus that want to store your phone number and voiceprint is your idea of a good time.
If you do defeat the chatbots, prepare for an hour wait (and counting) in the vain hope that a Real Human™️will answer the phone.
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Centrelink: Please choose your own misadventure.
To use our online system, go to centrelink.gov.au
When our online system fails to work, go to your local Centrelink office. Oh, wait, we closed that.
You could try phoning, if fighting your way through chatbot menus that want to store your phone number and voiceprint is your idea of a good time.
If you do defeat the chatbots, prepare for an hour wait (and counting) in the vain hope that a Real Human™️will answer the phone.
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The app wants ALL permissions to your phone.
Phone list, files, photos, location.Name permission this #centrelink (social security) app wants it all
Total surveillance
Tag: @hackuador doing great work mate!
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Call centre operator that won major Centrelink contract paid no corporate tax for two years
The Perth-headquartered company, Telco Services Australia, generated more than $185m in revenue in 2024-25 but reported no taxable income, new financial documents show.
The year before, it reported $130m in income and also paid zero tax.
The two-year reporting period coincides with the company’s multi-year $90m-plus contract to run call centre operations for Services Australia, the agency responsible for social security.
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"So, what's the problem?" (Moir, 26/12/25)
#auspol #ausnews #vicnews #moir #centrelink #robodebt #jobseeker -
"So, what's the problem?" (Moir, 26/12/25)
#auspol #ausnews #vicnews #moir #centrelink #robodebt #jobseeker -
A warning: If you are a pensioner who decides to rent out a room because housing crisis, beware! Centrelink and the ATO will come after you with baseball bats. I tried it but it's not worth the trouble and financial pain! #Centrelink #ATO
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ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including people on Centrelink benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/27/ato-tax-repayments-debt-collectorThe ATO is handballing thousands of people to Recoveriescorp. This misstep by the ATO is going to have disastrous consequences, like we saw with RoboDebt.
Recoveriescorp is a debt collector that's funded by private equity.
The business-model for private equity is buy-up other companies. This buy-up generates a massive debt. Companies that get consumed by a private equity firm are usually saddled with that debt. But, the reason those companies were up for sale is they were in bad shape. Now they've gone from underperforming to being in existential crisis. Their primary motivation becomes making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and by any means possible. Recoveriescorp is desperate to make money, and will hit anyone to make a buck.
What kind of company is Recoveriescorp?
Follow the money!
Recoveriescorp is owned by Nutun Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, which is part of Dove Bidco Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allegro Funds Pty Ltd.
Clear as mud.
How about Allegro Funds?
Back in January 2023, news emerged that PwC had been leaking secret Australian Government tax plans to corporations for up to ten years. PwC had abused its position as consultants to the Australian Government. Additionally, PwC ran what appears to me is a sham investigation to cover-up their own dirty deeds. (For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal).
As the result of this scandal, PwC lost A$680 million, about 20% of its overall income.
To extricate itself from the disaster of its own making, PwC spun-off the part of its business responsible for the acursed "Government Services". That was in June 2023. (For more info, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/pwc-appoints-new-ceo-will-sell-off-government-business/102521482). The core of new company was 117 former PwC partners, then filled-out with more than 1,500 other PwC staff. It was named Scyne Advisory.
In November 2023, PwC sold Scyne Advisory to Allegro Funds for $1.
You read that right: one dollar.
Now Recoveriescorp, owned by Allegro Funds and haunted by the ghost of Scyne Advisory (née PwC), has a fresh deal with the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO hasn't learned anything from its past mistakes. They did a deal with Recoveriescorp to act as a debt collector and try to claw money from people on Centrelink.
#AusPol #RoboDebt #ATO #AustralianTaxationOffice #Centrelink #Recoveriescorp #PwC #ScyneAdvisory #AllegroFunds
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ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including people on Centrelink benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/27/ato-tax-repayments-debt-collectorThe ATO is handballing thousands of people to Recoveriescorp. This misstep by the ATO is going to have disastrous consequences, like we saw with RoboDebt.
Recoveriescorp is a debt collector that's funded by private equity.
The business-model for private equity is buy-up other companies. This buy-up generates a massive debt. Companies that get consumed by a private equity firm are usually saddled with that debt. But, the reason those companies were up for sale is they were in bad shape. Now they've gone from underperforming to being in existential crisis. Their primary motivation becomes making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and by any means possible. Recoveriescorp is desperate to make money, and will hit anyone to make a buck.
What kind of company is Recoveriescorp?
Follow the money!
Recoveriescorp is owned by Nutun Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, which is part of Dove Bidco Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allegro Funds Pty Ltd.
Clear as mud.
How about Allegro Funds?
Back in January 2023, news emerged that PwC had been leaking secret Australian Government tax plans to corporations for up to ten years. PwC had abused its position as consultants to the Australian Government. Additionally, PwC ran what appears to me is a sham investigation to cover-up their own dirty deeds. (For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal).
As the result of this scandal, PwC lost A$680 million, about 20% of its overall income.
To extricate itself from the disaster of its own making, PwC spun-off the part of its business responsible for the acursed "Government Services". That was in June 2023. (For more info, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/pwc-appoints-new-ceo-will-sell-off-government-business/102521482). The core of new company was 117 former PwC partners, then filled-out with more than 1,500 other PwC staff. It was named Scyne Advisory.
In November 2023, PwC sold Scyne Advisory to Allegro Funds for $1.
You read that right: one dollar.
Now Recoveriescorp, owned by Allegro Funds and haunted by the ghost of Scyne Advisory (née PwC), has a fresh deal with the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO hasn't learned anything from its past mistakes. They did a deal with Recoveriescorp to act as a debt collector and try to claw money from people on Centrelink.
#AusPol #RoboDebt #ATO #AustralianTaxationOffice #Centrelink #Recoveriescorp #PwC #ScyneAdvisory #AllegroFunds
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Links to the ... wow ... redoubtable Asher Wolf looking at another Services Australia failure around Centrelink debts.Benefit recipients are being treated so badly.
The Targeted Compliance Framework has corrupted the system and twisted the purposes of welfare payments into being a tool to oppress and demonise benefit recipients.What you reckon Anthony Albanese?
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Links to the ... wow ... redoubtable Asher Wolf looking at another Services Australia failure around Centrelink debts.Benefit recipients are being treated so badly.
The Targeted Compliance Framework has corrupted the system and twisted the purposes of welfare payments into being a tool to oppress and demonise benefit recipients.What you reckon Anthony Albanese?
Time to end this dog act? -
“Post-Robot Debt” https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/it-error-welfare-payments-australia/
Mutual Obligation (T)error systemic
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/05/australia-mutual-obligation-system-it-system-error#AUWU #centrelink #Dole
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The robodebt class action settlement may be the biggest in Australian history – but the trauma isn’t over | Peter Whiteford https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/05/robodebt-class-action-settlement-biggest-in-australian-history-but-trauma-isnt-over #Centrelinkdebtrecovery #Australianpolitics #Australianews #Centrelink #Welfare
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Robodebt victims win record $548.5m settlement from government, taking total payout to $2.4bn
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Robodebt victims win record $548.5m settlement from government, taking total payout to $2.4bn
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sennalink headlines 🙄
no wonder nobody I know pays any attention to the murdoch pressyeah, nah… i never applied for a part time job at the supermarket because if i did i would have to go to sennalink and draw attention to myself.
i don’t mind working, but the option remains too risky, cos the government has not fixed sennalink, nor has it made a big noise about restoring the presumption of innocence.
#Auspol #Crapitalism #MurdTheTurd #Centrelink #Robodebt #GovernmentsHeyCantLiveWithoutThemCantLiveWithThem
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sennalink headlines 🙄
no wonder nobody I know pays any attention to the murdoch pressyeah, nah… i never applied for a part time job at the supermarket because if i did i would have to go to sennalink and draw attention to myself.
i don’t mind working, but the option remains too risky, cos the government has not fixed sennalink, nor has it made a big noise about restoring the presumption of innocence.
#Auspol #Crapitalism #MurdTheTurd #Centrelink #Robodebt #GovernmentsHeyCantLiveWithoutThemCantLiveWithThem
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I am a Robodebt whistleblower. I know what it’s like to be punished for speaking out and why protection is urgent | Jeannie-Marie Blake https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/i-am-a-robodebt-whistleblower-i-know-what-its-like-to-be-punished-for-speaking-out-and-why-protection-is-urgent #Royalcommissionintorobodebt #Centrelinkdebtrecovery #Australianpolitics #Centrelink #Welfare
