IT’S costing us $7.3 billion a year to help find work for unemployed Australians. But there could be a simple solution to the problem. MOUNTING criticisms of private job-finding services have […]
Year: 2017
The Preparation, the Institution, and the Politician Perhaps? Peter Dutton is to be given a fiefdom – the new, massive Department of Home Affairs. Peta Credlin responded immediately by […]
As we all were preparing for the Easter break, the government switched on the full version of its metadata retention system. Although the legislation enabling the scheme was passed in October […]
By Michael Griffin Image from abc.net.au. Photo by Natalie Whiting The Liberal National Party (‘LNP’) Welfare Card programme is really a LNP rort for the benefit of the Liberal and […]
More than 60,000 mines have been abandoned across Australia, according to a report that raises concerns about how land rehabilitation is managed as the mining boom ends. Key points Australia Institute […]
Labor’s leadership team of Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek pioneered the “robo-debt” data-matching system Centrelink is using to target current and former welfare recipients for apparently not declaring their income properly […]