Welfare
A landlord wanted April out to move in a family member. VCAT said no
Recent changes to tenancy law means a valid notice to vacate won’t always lead to an eviction – a relief for tenants, but a headache for landlords.
- by Jim Malo
Latest
Final robo-debt probe to keep names unnamed – again
The Australian Public Service Commissioner has apologised for the robo-debt disgrace – but 10 of 12 public servants responsible remain unnamed.
- by Paul Sakkal
Exclusive
Cost of living
How young people could have been $4700 better off over last six months
Just over two weeks before the federal budget, the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged the government to provide more help to those struggling the most.
- by Rachel Clun
Tax chief says COVID handouts pushed thousands into ‘horrifyingly bad’ TikTok scam
The head of the Australian Tax Office has admitted that the agency’s systems for “identifying fraud at that scale was not fit for purpose”.
- by Shane Wright
The children doing it tough this Christmas and the mayor making a difference
Kingston mayor Jenna Davey-Burns has fostered 27 children and counting. Here’s how she goes about brightening the lives of kids in her care during the festive season.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Opinion
Tax reform
The tax issue keeping women out of work
As we debate the merits of the stage 3 tax cuts, we should interrogate long-standing disincentives standing in the way of women wanting to work.
- by Millie Muroi
Private employment services have failed, watchdog is needed: Inquiry head
Julian Hill, who chaired a year-long inquiry into the $7 billion employment service sector, says privatisation has failed the unemployed and the country.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion
Opinion
Robo-debt was casually cruel, but we can’t get woolly about welfare
Robo-debt combined ideology and AI to yield an idiotic but cruel policy. A genuinely compassionate welfare system requires some clear-headed humanity.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Updated
Robo-debt royal commission
Crossbench demands answers on robo-debt bureaucrat’s $900K AUKUS parachute
The robo-debt royal commission made a range of scathing findings against Kathryn Campbell, who ran the Department of Human Services when the welfare debt recovery scheme was introduced.
- by Angus Thompson
Tony Wright’s Saturday Column
Robo-debt royal commission
How political egos led us to the shame of robo-debt
There was a time when senior public servants were called permanent secretaries. Then a series of political leaders sought to bend them to their will.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Robo-debt royal commission
Robo-debt: Another cynical cycle in our dirty laundry politics
Our politicians have become very adept at holding their predecessors to account. But that has not improved standards of political behaviour.
- by Ross Gittins
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