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Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests

Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful

The Guardian - AU

Microsoft sued over ‘misleading’ emails; power outages after storms; and could the internet go offline?

Australia’s consumer watchdog claims in federal court that the tech company misled nearly 3 million customers on software prices

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: ATO’s private debt collector, questions over Pine Gap’s role in Gaza war, Louvre heist suspects arrested

More than 355,000 taxpayers referred to debt collector by ATO; Australia’s complicity in Gaza war scrutinized; French police arrest two men after Louvre theft

The Guardian - AU

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ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including people on Centrelink benefits

Suzanne is one of more than 355,000 people the tax office has referred to the private equity-backed debt collector, Recoveriescorp, since January 2024

The Guardian - AU

Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?

Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’

The Guardian - AU

Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000

Exclusive: Services Australia spokesperson says automatic BPay payments and Centrelink being unable to contact customers may be to blame

The Guardian - AU

Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won

After taking his case to the administrative review tribunal, Daniel’s complaint then went to the commonwealth ombudsman, which is now investigating Centrelink

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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

The Guardian - AU

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.

AAP

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.

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

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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

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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.

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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The Guardian - AU

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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