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Department of Social Services loses appeal over $27,000 Centrelink debt

Department of Social Services loses appeal over $27,000 Centrelink debt

Friday January 15, 2021

By Matthew Elmas

  • Federal

The Department of Social Services has lost an effort to recoup $27,000 in Centrelink debts from the mother of a child with special needs, ending…


Services Australia sees return of former chief transformation officer

Services Australia sees return of former chief transformation officer

Tuesday May 26, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Communications & Technology

Senior public servant John Murphy has left his role as Services Australia's chief transformation officer, prompting the return of a familiar face.

Kathryn Campbell on DSS’s pandemic response and why she’s proud to be a public servant

Kathryn Campbell on DSS’s pandemic response and why she’s proud to be a public servant

Wednesday April 29, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Community & Social

Kathryn Campbell tells how her department has worked tirelessly throughout the bushfires and the pandemic, and what public servants across the country should be considering…

Old fiscal ideas are back, along with whatever creative new policies the public service can devise
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Old fiscal ideas are back, along with whatever creative new policies the public service can devise

Tuesday April 14, 2020

By Bernard Keane

  • Economy & Industry

The government's discovery that public servants aren’t good merely for implementing its diktats has got to stick in the craw of a government whose signature…

Robodebt: Government expects to refund more than 400,000 welfare debts

Robodebt: Government expects to refund more than 400,000 welfare debts

Friday March 27, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Federal

The federal government plans to refund more than 400,000 Centrelink debts as part of a looming class action against the controversial robodebt scheme. A ministerial…

Services Australia puts measures in place to deal with ‘unprecedented demand’

Services Australia puts measures in place to deal with ‘unprecedented demand’

Thursday March 26, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Federal

The government is upgrading myGov's capacity by creating more load space in the information and communications technology systems to accommodate the surge in demand.

Influx of 95,000 users crashed MyGov, not cyber attack

Influx of 95,000 users crashed MyGov, not cyber attack

Tuesday March 24, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Federal

The government services minister has taken back his claim that a cyber attack similar to the one used to bring down the 2016 Census had…

Centrelink service centres set to close in VIC and NSW

Centrelink service centres set to close in VIC and NSW

Tuesday February 25, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Federal

The services centres have announced closures in various communities that include Mornington and Newport in Victoria, and Newcastle and Tweed Heads in New South Wales.

Robodebt aftermath: new laws target Centrelink overpayments

Robodebt aftermath: new laws target Centrelink overpayments

Tuesday January 28, 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

  • Community & Social

New laws are set to change the government’s welfare payment system in an aim to prevent overpayments . Legislation to be introduced in the first…

Feds plan to join up government using computer science, on the way to service delivery ‘Nirvana’

Feds plan to join up government using computer science, on the way to service delivery ‘Nirvana’

Monday December 2, 2019

By Stephen Easton

  • Communications & Technology

The federal government wants to create whole-of-government information technology architecture to underpin its ambitious plans to improve service delivery.

The big reveal: Services Australia reforms linked to data sharing and digital transformation

The big reveal: Services Australia reforms linked to data sharing and digital transformation

Monday December 2, 2019

By Stephen Easton

  • Communications & Technology

The federal government's Digital Transformation Strategy and data-sharing reforms have been stitched together with the government’s ambitious plan to completely transform the Commonwealth’s troubled service…

Senate: show us the robodebt legal advice

Senate: show us the robodebt legal advice

Thursday November 28, 2019

By Stephen Easton

  • Federal

The Community and Public Sector Union says the government has been ignoring the concerns of Centrelink staff about the robodebt system for years, while the…

Robodebt defeated: Commonwealth caves in and accepts debt and 10% penalty both invalid

Robodebt defeated: Commonwealth caves in and accepts debt and 10% penalty both invalid

Wednesday November 27, 2019

By Stephen Easton

  • Federal

The Commonwealth government has conceded one Centrelink’s robodebt was invalid due to the use of income averaging in the absence of concrete evidence — the…

‘No apologies’ for robodebt, no admission of ‘mistakes’ despite major retroactive change

‘No apologies’ for robodebt, no admission of ‘mistakes’ despite major retroactive change

Tuesday November 19, 2019

By Stephen Easton

  • Communications & Technology

Minister for Human Services Stuart Robert says there will be “no apologies” from the federal government over how its much-maligned robodebt program has operated in…

Robodebt ‘refinement’ or strategic back-down? Human Services reads the writing on the wall

Robodebt ‘refinement’ or strategic back-down? Human Services reads the writing on the wall

Tuesday November 19, 2019

By Stephen Easton

  • Community & Social

The Department of Human Services will no longer raise welfare debts based only on the unproven assumption that a person earned an income from employment…

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