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Guardianship in Australia: 'There has to be some form of accountability' crikey.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from crikey.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This is the second of a two-part series. When Attorney-General Christian Porter appointed Liberal Party lifer Karen Synon to head up the social services and child support division of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal it capped a near five-year Coalition blitz on the AAT’s independence. As we’ve reported, the stacking of the AAT is the quintessential example of how the Morrison government has corrupted government processes to the benefit of party members, backroom workers and failed candidates. The social services and child support division is responsible for a third of the AAT’s work, dealing mainly with Centrelink decisions affecting the aged pension, carer allowances and support, Newstart, youth allowance and ABSTUDY, to give a partial list. Those appealing to it are, in short, the people most in need of help and a fair hearing when taking on Australian bureaucracy. ....
r Analysis: For the hundreds of thousands of Australians impacted by the government s Centrelink robodebt scheme, the year appears to have ended not with a bang but a whimper. As we rolled into 2020, robodebt victims were hopeful. Gordon Legal s huge class action lawsuit - representing some 600,000 Australians who had been saddled with unlawful debts - was gathering pace. Lawyers at the Melbourne firm had every reason to be confident of a significant win. After all, the Federal Court had already found in November last year a key component of the debt recovery scheme â its use of tax office income averaging â had no basis in law. ....
flying in the porkie skies... | Your Democracy yourdemocracy.net.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yourdemocracy.net.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.