At a time when Australia is experiencing a critical skills shortages,keeping tens of thousands of women out of the workforce seems beyond counter-intuitive.
The most recent school term has been educational for me and exhausting for my flatmate … and not because we have kids.
Given the savings on offer,you might wonder why more people haven’t applied for a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. Perhaps they heard about my misadventures.
I’ve been a taxpayer for most of my life. It’s embarrassing and depressing the way Australia treats people who are looking for work.
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.
For those who are feeling the pinch as we approach Christmas,it is a good time to take another look at your entitlements and benefits.
The system for victim compensation is broken for everyone,but it’s particularly harsh on survivors of child sexual abuse.
Julia Baird’s article should be mandatory daily reading for politicians on both sides of the floor,a reminder of the importance of integrity in those who hold public office.
Families are receiving letters saying that they owe debts to Centrelink because they were overpaid the childcare subsidy. Challenging the veracity of the debt is a nightmare.
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.
Centrelink’s “income apportionment” method is a disastrous throwback to another ill-starred scheme that heaped misery on welfare claimants.