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April says she feared she would not have long to live if she was made homeless by her landlord.

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.

  • Jim Malo

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Former Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell.

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.

  • Paul Sakkal
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I can assure you, life on JobSeeker is no picnic

Can Australia still claim to be the land of the fair go? Readers offer their views.

The government has again been urged to lift welfare payments.

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.

  • Rachel Clun
Tax commissioner Chris Jordan says pandemic-era stimulus payments had encouraged an “appetite for fraud” among some people.

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”.

  • Shane Wright
Jenna Davey-Burns has fostered 27 children since 2017.

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.

  • Jewel Topsfield
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Jim Chalmers says there aren’t any changes to stage 3 tax cuts, but the budget will tackle energy costs.

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.

  • Millie Muroi
Julian Hill said when it comes to employment services “it’s obvious that full privatisation has failed”.

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.

  • Shane Wright
What do we mean by “universal compassion”? Is it fair to keep generations of the same families relying on welfare?

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.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Former departmental secretary Kathryn Campbell.

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.

  • Angus Thompson

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