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Federal government paid $3.8m in personal protection for then CFMEU administrator

Senate committee also hears Murray Watt needed personal security after sending the union into administration

The Guardian - AU

‘Gobsmacked’: Australian workplace relations department to replace short-term staff with third-party contractor

Workers and union say outsourcing will mean loss of knowledge and experience needed to help ‘very vulnerable people’ waiting for government payments

The Guardian - AU

Almost half of people using employment providers threatened with payment suspensions, new data shows

Government not maintaining ‘effective oversight’, with majority of decisions being overturned, commonwealth ombudsman found

The Guardian - AU

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The ATO is meant to be bringing work back in-house. But its target to cut consultants is ‘woefully inadequate’

Figure revealed this week was so low the Australian Services Union asked if it was a typographical error

The Guardian - AU

Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests

Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful

The Guardian - AU

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

The Guardian - AU

Hundreds of jobseeker payments cancelled illegally by government IT system, watchdog finds

Ombudsman says staff at workplace relations department were wrong to rely on an automated system to stop money for claimants

The Guardian - AU

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More than 10,000 jobseeker payments may have been wrongfully reduced or cancelled, government says

Australia employment department announces more payment system pauses due to it not ‘operating in alignment with the law’

The Guardian - AU

Payslip wars: Australian jobseekers suffer harassment in ‘a crazy system that doesn’t work for anyone’

Private job providers can claim public money when jobseekers find work. But they need their payslips to do so, and some resort to extreme methods to get them

The Guardian - AU

Major Australian employment service accused of claiming credit for work jobseeker found herself

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia suggest job provider APM referred woman for role she had already won; APM deny wrongdoing

The Guardian - AU

Jobseekers say Australia’s employment system forcing them into jobs with ‘terrible hours, conditions and pay’

Workers claim they have been forced to clean up human faeces, had payments cut off after a death in the family and have had to cancel work to attend provider appointments

The Guardian - AU

DEWR and AEC on the hunt again for new Canberra office

Broadcast studio, on-site childcare, and a 'command centre' are on the wish list.

The Canberra Times

Jobseekers receiving Centrelink payments say they're being 'penalised' for studying

One month into the rollout of the new $7 billion Workforce Australia system, jobseekers and students are reporting mass confusion and inconsistencies.

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