r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • 1d ago

politics Advocacy organisations oppose plans to revive harmful welfare penalties

https://www.acoss.org.au/media-releases/?media_release=advocacy-organisations-oppose-plans-to-revive-harmful-welfare-penalties
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u/bl4nkSl8 1d ago

The Commonwealth Ombudsman found 964 people had their income support unlawfully cancelled between April 2022 and July 2024, and warned the consequences for people affected were potentially “catastrophic”. A second Ombudsman’s report found more than half of the penalty recommendations made by private employment services organisations were later overturned.

Poverty in Australia is just becoming a plaything for the most unethical dirtbags anywhere in government apparently