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A Generational Miscalculation
Unpicking Centrelink’s Unlawful Income Apportionment
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Darren O'Donovan
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February 2024

Backlogged in bureaucracy
How do a million Centrelink claims go unprocessed?
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Darren O'Donovan

September 2023

Barriers to Implementing the Robodebt Royal Commission: The Audit Office Report on Welfare Timeliness and Accuracy
The Australian National Audit Office report into payment accuracy and timeliness in the welfare system was released last week. It sharply criticises the…
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Darren O'Donovan

August 2023

Making things right? Ombudsman's statement highlights welfare department's recalcitrance
A new Ombudsman's statement reveals how Services Australia exempted itself from notifying some 15,000 welfare recipients (out of of a total of 47,000…
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Chris Rudge
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When is an unlawful debt calculation method akin to playing soccer with boots on your hands?
Sometimes, making sense of unlawful governmental action can give rise to imperfect and whimsical analogies.
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Chris Rudge
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Lessons in Lawfulness
An analysis of the Commonwealth Ombudsman report finding more than 100,000 Centrelink files are affected by 'income apportionment' -- an unlawful method…
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Chris Rudge
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July 2023

April 2021

Welfare in Australia before 1908
The enactment of the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act 1908 (Cth) ('IOPA') inaugurated welfare in Australia. But what came before it?
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Chris Rudge
Defining robodebts
How, and in what legal contexts, have robodebts been defined?
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Chris Rudge

March 2021

Centrelink's Net to Gross Earnings Calculator
What is this tool and why does the DSS use it to calculate debts? Is it legitimate or potentially unlawful?
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Chris Rudge
References to the FCA from the AAT
In what circumstances can and should the AAT refer questions of law to the Federal Court of Australia under s 45 of AAT Act?
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Chris Rudge
Welfare Law and MMT
Could Modern Monetary Theory reframe welfare and welfare law in Australia?
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Chris Rudge
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