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Topic: The Department of Human Services

Did Centrelink just admit its debt collectors have mandatory targets?

Welfare

Nov 06, 2019

3

(Image: AAP/Tracey Nearmy)

Centrelink shakedown: what happens when Centrelink asks to see your transaction history?

Welfare

Sep 19, 2019

17

The battle for benefits: people with disabilities fight back against broken system

Federal

Feb 27, 2018

19

AFP declines to investigate Tudge over breach of privacy in Centrelink robo-debt saga

Federal

May 09, 2017

3

Alan Tudge and DHS think it’s legal to leak private citizens’ details to the press. It isn’t.

Federal

Mar 03, 2017

36

LEAKED: scripts for three other departmental recruitment ads

Federal

Mar 02, 2017

5

Australia, 2017: bureaucrats who see citizens as enemies

Federal

Feb 28, 2017

20

Blogger Andie Fox wrote a comment piece for the Fairfax papers on February 6, outlining her experience with Centrelink. Then things got nasty.

Centrelink reveals private info about client that bad-mouthed the debt-recovery shemozzle

Tips and rumours

Feb 27, 2017

In today's Media Briefs: Fairfax's <em>Good Weekend</em> and <em>Good Living</em> on the same menu ... Spun out of Human Services job ... Front Page of the Day ... News International offers Milly Dowler's family £3m settlement and more ...

Fairfax’s failed recipe … Hate, love and the media … NotW settlement …

Media

Sep 20, 2011

1

Crikey readers have their say.

‘Live crosses that aren’t’ have been going on for years

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Aug 30, 2011

1

A centre that helps some of Victoria's most vulnerable families with parenting issues is understaffed and underfunded, writes Swinburne journalism student <b>Russell Davis</b>.

The Brumby Dump: family help centre struggling to meet needs

Victoria

Nov 05, 2010

The Department of Human Services has found success in the Twitterverse by applying the same broad strategy it uses for talkback radio, closely monitoring mentions of government services and interacting when possible with audiences.

Is Twitter the new talkback radio?

Digital

Nov 04, 2010

There are 12 articles in The Department of Human Services