Tag: Linda Burney

Govt launches COVID-19 vaccine digital certificates

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has launched digital certificates for Australians to show on their smartphones to prove they have received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccine digital...

myGov gets an ugly report card

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Commonwealth’s myGov platform has been “largely effective,” despite ballooning costs and an inability to bring new government services onto the platform, an audit report has found. The Australian...

Calling time on robo-debt scheme

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Federal Government’s highly controversial robo-debt recovery system is a “fundamentally broken program” that has had a “profoundly negative impact on the lives of thousands of Australians”, a Senate...

Robo-debt gets an expanded brief

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government is ploughing ahead with plans to expand the controversial robo-debt program to save nearly $1 billion in a move that the Opposition said will unfairly target pensioners....

Labor readies new Centrelink probe

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Federal Opposition has called for a Senate inquest into the Centrelink debacle with Shadow Minister for Human Services Linda Burney saying the government had its “head in the...

Tudge responds: Everything is fine

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Human Services Minister Alan Tudge says the continuation of the error-prone Centrelink debt recovery scheme was necessary to maintain the “integrity” of Australia’s welfare system. Mr Tudge said the...

Debt debacle is a perfect storm

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow Human Services minister Linda Burney has accused the Minister responsible for the Centrelink debt recovery debacle of “going into hiding” over the issue as an independent investigation into...

Carr rump proves hard to move

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s self-described ‘Dream Team’ of an expanded Shadow Ministry is a mixed bag for the tech industry. The elevation of Jim Chalmers to Finance and Michelle...