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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 15m

Such a shame - she was great

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 49m

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

Are they legal? No-one knows.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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12.44 AEDT
Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Yesterday the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was asked about the legality of the TCF, the system that operates mutual obligations.

Analysis from Economic Justice Australia shows over 300,000 payments were illegally cancelled in-between 2020 and 2024.

Secretary of DEWR, Natalie James said the system “was not always operating as intended”.

She said the government was looking into whether providers are making illegal decisions around suspensions and cancellations:

There are 1000s of decisions being made in any week under these provisions. And so humans are not perfect, and obviously, as we’ve found out, nor are our systems.

There are times where the providers aren’t exercising the judgments we would prefer.

Before anything gets into a system, a provider, an employee and a provider is making a judgment about whether certain requirements have been met.

Payment cancellations are currently on hold, while the government works out how to operate the system legally.

2h ago
21.49 EDT
Cait Kelly
Cait Kelly
Following from the last post…

Asked later how many people’s payments had been illegally cancelled, Deputy Secretary of DEWR Tania Rishniw said:

We’re working through those numbers as I said earlier, each cancellation or reduction under the legislation that’s been caused or suspended was paused for a different reason. The total number of people impacted, we’re still working through.

While cancellations are paused, the department admitted there had been a total of 321,995 payment suspensions for 205,870 jobseekers between May and July this year.

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 19m

#auspol
Best take I have seen on this

eX Citizen @snotrejected.bsky.social · 1h

They threw the sportsman out of their gambling club. It makes more sense like that.

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 20m

‘Freedom frogs’!!!!!

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 21m

Cheers- was wondering what time

Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 22m

I don’t recognise this party

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 23m

The only one I think actually should be in a parliamentary sporting team is Pocock - @albomp.bsky.social is a laughing stock

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 2h

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 44m

Yep

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 46m

I am (again) gobsmacked

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 1h

If the NACC actually worked

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 2h

Kicking someone out of the parliament sports club for pointing out the parliament sports club is so involved with the gambling lobby they had to officially register as a lobbying group is the very sort of action that should be referred to a 'National Anti-Corruption Commission'.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4h

Well, well, well. Guess who just got booted from the Australian Parliament Sports Club, for—you guessed it—being white.

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 4h

Has he done anything correctly (ie according to research)? He’s certainly got a list of failures and embarrassments!!

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 5h

Appeals court increases prison term for Gisele Pelicot rapist

A French appeals court has handed a stiffer 10-year sentence to the only man who challenged his conviction ...

www.9news.com.au

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 5h

Goodness me. When a lawyer submits AI hallucinated cases, they get sent to the regulator to explain why they should keep their PC for misleading the court

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 18h

What an excellent helper!! Nice work Frankie 😻

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 18h

Yum! We received 3 bushels of spinach one week so always on the lookout for spinach recipes in case I muck up an order again 😻

Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 18h

25 years ago already

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 20h

You will be able to see @chrisrudge.bsky.social & others interviewed about this on ABC 730 in a few minutes.

Hopefully we can finally have some mainstream discussion of the subject of the report, being the unlawful cancellations of the Centrelink payments of hundreds of thousands of recipients.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 4d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 20h

As you should 😻

Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 22h

That is very impressive!

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 23h

Has to be Greta.

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 23h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Newcastle people - apparently the parts are coming from Williamtown (north of Newcastle) and being flown to Israel. I don’t want Newcastle involved in this

Defence officials grilled over report F-35 fighter jet parts sent from NSW to Israel

Department of Defence officials distance themselves from F-35 fighter jet parts allegedly shipped from Australia to Israel, saying the material is the property of Lockheed Martin.

www.abc.net.au

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Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 23h

Yes!!

Anti corruption @againstcorruption.bsky.social · 1d

Tops - I think I have qantas FF

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