@maximumwelfare

Welfare advocate, live coverage #RobodebtRC, 3x Primetime Emmy winner. 2Pac alive in Latvia. #ViewsMyOwn

 Bidjigal/Sydney/Former TV Monk
Joined November 2009
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🚨 If you are trying to call Centrelink at the moment and are having your calls repeatedly terminated please message me here with the details, or email me ([email protected]). Please include the line you are trying to call, the number of calls and the duration. Thank you.
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Hardwurkinstrayan@The_Unaposter6h
Replying to @maximumwelfare @intl_weeds
An all-timer from the archives
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Yes a severely mentally-ill guy hitting an MP with his car is absolutely the same issue as public servants' invalid hurt feelings about getting roasted at Estimates. Of course it is.
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Katy Gallagher says clips of estimates are causing top bureaucrats to quit. If she means Gordon De Brouwer, the Public Service Commissioner who resigned after he said in estimates that it was ok to destroy records, its OK. Gordon is crying into his new million dollar job
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Commonwealth Ombudsman found use of automation in Australia's aged care system lacks safeguards leading to unfair outcomes for elderly patients, due to flaws in design of classification algorithm & in its operation. Ombudsman makes 10 recommendations. ombudsman.gov.au/__data/asse…
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Children are our enemy’s they are all traders
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Students are planning to protest against Pauline Hanson and One Nation on 11th November. Remembrance Day. There's no way the date is coincidental. It just shows what type of people these protesters are. And they call us hateful.
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jeremy poxon@JeremyPoxon14h
NEW rights guide for people in employment services How to resist job agency bullshit, avoid punishments, and find the easiest pathway through mutual obligations. Share far and wide Online version here: bit.ly/MOsurvival Order a physical copy here: bit.ly/OrderMOsRightsGuide
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"We're still not reassured of the department's ability to administer [TCF] lawfully. When the consequences of error are as significant as people having no income at all, it's critically important that the government take the time to get it right," EJA told @YahooFinance last week
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The compliance scheme, known as the Targeted Compliance Framework, has been paused for much of this year off the back of revelations of unlawful operations - including EJA analysis that revealed ~310K people had their payments cancelled illegally.
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Despite strong continued opposition from experts and advocates, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will today resume certain elements of the controversial compliance scheme that underpins Australia's employment services system: buff.ly/qwygNvZ

Centrelink payments facing cancellations as 'alarming' rule change days away

The government is being urged to scrap the controversial system set to return from next week.

au.finance.yahoo.com
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Last year, instead of forgiving debts the Albanese government had no way of validating... they passed laws to validate questionable debts. This is at the same time they resumed unlawful payment cancellations. Turn down the temperature for who? au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ce…

Centrelink 'hounding' Australians to pay back billions in debt calculated by 'unlawful' method

Almost 150,000 Australians are being hit with Centrelink repayment debts that had been paused for years and calculated using the unlawful "income apportionment" method.

au.finance.yahoo.com
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🚨 'Almost 150,000 Australians are being hit with Centrelink repayment debts that had been paused for years and calculated using the unlawful "income apportionment" method.' Labor chose to pass legislation to retrospectively validate these illegal debts. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ce…

Centrelink 'hounding' Australians to pay back billions in debt calculated by 'unlawful' method

Almost 150,000 Australians are being hit with Centrelink repayment debts that had been paused for years and calculated using the unlawful "income apportionment" method.

au.finance.yahoo.com
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Meanwhile, they've acted on NONE of the Robodebt Royal Commission's recommendations for legislative reform in over 3 years, including to restore the normal statute of limitation of 6 years to social security debts. Why wouldn't they do that? This is why. xitter.cf/maximumwelfare/status/…
Tom Studans@maximumwelfareAug 9
The Coalition made social security recipients exempt from the ordinary statutes of limitation on debt that apply to everyone else, it was a cornerstone of Robodebt. The Royal Commission recommended this law be repealed, which would be simple. Labor have ignored it for >3 years.
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All that fucking horseshit from that blithering dickhead Bill Shorten, all the 'never again' posturing? Labor want to shake you down just like the Coalition did, using the very laws the Coalition passed in order to perpetrate Robodebt in the first place. Sick fucking BASTARDS.
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This is going to be a disaster and it will end up in court by the end of next year. Everyone responsible is proceeding in the full knowledge that this will be the outcome, and they're pissing themselves. Simply stopping the runaway class action train, though, is not contemplated.
Tom Studans@maximumwelfare16h
🚨 If you have received a message like this today please understand your mutual obligations HAVE NOT CHANGED. The government is trying to inform you that they have resumed payment cancellations for certain mutual obligations breaches. Here is the information you actually need:
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🚨 If you have received a message like this today please understand your mutual obligations HAVE NOT CHANGED. The government is trying to inform you that they have resumed payment cancellations for certain mutual obligations breaches. Here is the information you actually need:
vinni • 包沁燕 🇵🇸@glyphclutter17h
would the dewr ever just fuck off
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The attached 'easy read' document is, as you may expect, supposed to be an accessible version that is simpler to understand. This one has been contracted to company a specialising in this stuff, and it is 11 PAGES of incomprehensible baby-speak garbage. dewr.gov.au/download/17878/c…
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Stakeholder Consultant@echetus21h
Israeli Official Statement: Our prisoners continue to exhibit the unconquerable human spirit
Politics Global
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🚨🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says prisoners who created a cake celebrating the potential election defeat of Benjamin Netanyahu have been put in solitary confinement
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IT'S HERE: From today you can get our new "Mutual" obligations rights guide – digital or in print It explains in clear terms how you can & can’t be penalised to cut through job agency bullshit. It’s for people w compulsory activities, community sector workers & other supporters
Headline: Today harsh Centrelink penalties return – this new rights book will arm welfare recipients facing “mutual” obligations abuses. Art: Drawing of a person climbing a hill holding a job plan. An echidna is nearby. On another hill, on the other side of a creek, is a group of people. One of them is burning a job plan in a fire. In the distance are gum trees and mountains.

ALT Headline: Today harsh Centrelink penalties return – this new rights book will arm welfare recipients facing “mutual” obligations abuses. Art: Drawing of a person climbing a hill holding a job plan. An echidna is nearby. On another hill, on the other side of a creek, is a group of people. One of them is burning a job plan in a fire. In the distance are gum trees and mountains.

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Do they have a different Constitution of Australia down there or something?
The Age
@theageOct 25
Jess Wilson vows to ban ‘Globalise the intifada’ phrase if elected theage.com.au/national/victo…

Jess Wilson vows to ban ‘Globalise the intifada’ phrase if elected

The opposition leader also said on Sunday that a Coalition government would introduce “move on” laws and require protesters to obtain permits to hold demonstrations.

theage.com.au
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It's worth clarifying that this is not an ethically or ideologically complex statement. What I have said is I have used a tool and found it useful, where my job is to immediately maximise inadequate resources to do things to grow an organisation. Pretty well qualified, I thought!
Tom Studans@maximumwelfareOct 25
I am usually wearing several hats on behalf of small non-profits. I will figure it out from scratch which is why I get hired. Most of the time I already know exactly what I need and how to get it, the biggest deficit is always grunt work. This alone is saving me WEEKS at a time.
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If you don't have juniors or reliable volunteers, if you want to expand the organisation and the senior team you will have to do things. A lot of people have run NFPs as a sinecure for going to ANU and being a staffer 30 years ago. It's not 2008 anymore, it's adapt or die now.
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