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Repeated info sharing for government services to be cut

People applying for government services could now only have to fill out personal information once under reforms to be introduced to parliament.

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Morning Mail: Albanese’s diplomatic triumph, the rise of Andrew Hastie, a rethink of human evolution

The prime minister heads to London after successful week in New York; is the WA Liberal a potential leader or just a disruptor?

The Guardian - AU

More than 300,000 Australians had Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, new analysis shows

Peak body for community legal centres finds number of payments suspended due to IT glitch higher than department initially identified

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The people who helped expose the Coalition’s ‘crude and cruel’ robodebt scheme

New documentary The People vs Robodebt tells the story of how a disastrous automated Centrelink debt recovery scheme was brought down

The Guardian - AU

From jobseeker to the pension, Centrelink welfare payments are about to increase – slightly

Payments to increase on Saturday with indexation, with youth allowance to become $1,027.70 a fortnight and jobseeker to be $793.60 a fortnight

The Guardian - AU

About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensation

Announcement comes after the federal government admitted the use of income apportionment to determine welfare payments was invalid

The Guardian - AU

Details of Monash IVF review to remain secret – as it happened

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The ghost of Robodebt – Federal Court rules billions of dollars in welfare debts must be recalculated

A recent landmark court decision could have significant ramifications for several million social security recipients.

The Conversation

Battlers overcharged millions by monopoly power utility

A power monopoly raked in millions of dollars from Centrelink customers by continuing to draw payments after their accounts were closed, a watchdog has found.

AAP

Web of systems exploited for insidious financial abuse

Perpetrators are largely unchecked as they use courts, banks and Centrelink to inflict financial abuse on an intimate partner, research has found.

AAP

1 July changes: minimum wage, Centrelink payments, parental leave, road fines and everything else coming for 2025-26

New financial year means improved benefits for the less well off, and cameras that can see drivers using their phones

The Guardian - AU

1 July changes: minimum wage, Centrelink payments, parental leave, road fines and everything else coming for 2025-26

New financial year means improved benefits for the less well off, and cameras that can see drivers using their phones

The Guardian - AU

Kelly’s jobseeker payments were cut off during a hospital stay for psychosis. It’s far from an isolated case

In February, the highest month for suspensions this year, for every minute, more than one recipient had their payments paused

The Guardian - AU

Centrelink Has Issued These Major Warnings In Australia

On 15 May 2025, Centrelink cautioned pensioners about fraudulent websites mimicking official platforms, falsely claiming Age Pension eligibility changes to steal sensitive personal and financial data.

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The Guardian - AU

‘You don’t expect your own children to do this’: Ray’s shocking tale of elder abuse and the son who stole $230,000

Experts call for redesign of financial services and improved Centrelink processes to protect older Australians from fraud

The Guardian - AU

Turnbull says ‘we cannot assume we can rely on America’ under Trump – as it happened

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What is claim farming – and is there anything wrong with it?

Many lawyers and advocates worry the practice is too easy to exploit and could make it harder for genuine abuse survivors to get justice

The Guardian - AU

‘Everyone knows the Centrelink song’: how we learned to love – and remix – hold music

It’s been called the ‘sound of purgatory’ but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok

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The Guardian - AU

Centrelink mutual obligations scheme paused amid scrutiny on ‘failing systems’

Department apologises for ‘potential confusion and distress’ after multiple IT issues and payments potentially cancelled in error

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Services Australia chasing billions in unpaid debt – including some which may have been unlawfully calculated

Agency pursuing $4.9bn in unpaid debts, including some potentially calculated with controversial method, question to parliament reveals

AAP

More women in cabinet but representation worries build

The political representation of women has received a boost after a pre-election cabinet shuffle but concerns remain over the opposition's gender imbalance.

The Guardian - AU

Centrelink payments increase, passport fees up, import bans and pay rises: all the changes in Australia on 1 January

Bigger Austudy and carer allowance payments, higher Medicare safety net thresholds and mandatory corporate reporting on climate also ahead

AAP

AGL weighs appeal of 'significant' $25m court penalty

An energy retailer is deciding whether to appeal a record court-imposed penalty in a case brought by the regulator for overcharging customers on welfare.

The Guardian - AU

Welfare payments to increase for 1 million Australians but advocates say it’s not enough

Anti-poverty activists say indexed rise in Centrelink payments on 1 January won’t cover soaring rent and the high cost of living

The Conversation

‘The social engineering of shame’: Rick Morton’s Mean Streak exposes the populism behind the unlawful robodebt scheme

At nearly 500 pages, Rick Morton’s Mean Streak provides a detailed account of the development and collapse of the robodebt scheme, which started in 2014 and is, in some ways, not yet finished.

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