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Child support payments could be transferred to the Tax Office to better enforce the scheme.

Australia has $1.7b in unpaid child support. These MPs have a plan to claw it back

An eight-month parliamentary inquiry heard that unpaid child support was being used as a form of financial abuse.

  • Hamish Hastie

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The jobless rate has held steady.

Anti-corruption body decided against robo-debt probe. Now it is being investigated

Last week, the anti-corruption commission said it would not launch an inquiry into robo-debt. That decision is now the subject of an investigation by the NACC’s inspector.

  • Paul Sakkal
Joeanne Cassar, 55, was stabbed while working at an Airport West Centrelink branch in May 2023.

Joeanne was stabbed while at work at Centrelink. She says it should never have happened

The career public servant was left battling severe pain and nerve damage and is unable to return to work, but hopes beefed-up security will keep others safe.

  • Caroline Schelle
Bushfires and floods are some of the climate disasters hitting Australia in recent years.

‘Opportunistic’ fraud and scams target disasters in a warming world

Financial criminals are exploiting Australia’s worsening climate disasters and extreme weather events, including fires, floods and cyclones.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Services Australia chief executive David Hazlehurst said backlog of 1.1 million unprocessed claims was too high.

The government agency with a backlog of more than one million claims

Services Australia is grappling with 1.1 million unprocessed health and welfare claims. Its new boss David Hazlehurst wants to halve that by the middle of this year.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Amy McAuliffe with her daughter Bernadette, 9 months, waited three months for parental leave pay.

How Amy’s newborn dream turned into a financial ordeal

The first time mother loved being home with baby Bernadette. But the months-long wait for parental leave payments became a financial problem.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth during a press conference on the response to the Robodebt Royal Commission, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.

Shorten vows to ‘re-humanise’ Services Australia in robo-debt response

The public service and Services Australia will be bolstered as the federal government vows to deliver “robo-justice” to welfare recipients affected by the Coalition’s unlawful debt recovery scheme.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Stuart Robert said the allegations were ridiculous.

Stuart Robert stood to gain financially from friends’ company, inquiry told

A parliamentary inquiry has heard a senior public servant met the owners of Synergy 360 at the home of a co-owner while the firm was advising clients on Services Australia contracts.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
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Centrelink knows if you’re hiding a relationship – but it’s complicated

The welfare agency is asking police to trawl through people’s metadata and in some cases crack their passwords to find out if they’re in a relationship.

  • Angus Thompson and Tim Biggs
Trish Price is owed over $200,000 in child support.

Perth woman owed $200,000 in child support, with nothing anyone can do

Trish Price and her children are living in poverty while being owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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