Centrelink's decision to release a welfare recipient's personal information to a journalist is unprecedented and will have a chilling impact on public criticism, lawyers say. Lawyers change legal ...

The Department of Human Services is using every excuse possible in order to avoid releasing information on Centrelink’s controversial online data matching debt system, with many freedom of information ...

Facing closer government scrutiny and pressure to reduce costs, social security agency Centrelink is moving to boost the way mission-critical internal reports and information are provided to its users ...

South Australian Premier Mike Rann says Centrelink information should be shared across the country to help with child protection. Mr Rann says there have been a number of families with children at ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Labor frontbencher Linda Burney has referred Human Services Minister Alan Tudge to federal police over allegations he broke social ...

A number of websites are promoting a fake $890 Centrelink 'bonus' payment. · Source: Getty Aussies are being warned to watch out for websites promoting a fake $890 cost-of-living “bonus payment” for ...

The stories of Australians targeted by Centrelink with dodgy debt notices haven’t abated, and the experiences show that the government’s assurances of fixes in the system haven’t led to a more ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. STATE child protection authorities will have access to Centrelink information by early next year to help locate families with children ...

National welfare agency Centrelink has launched a new speaking feature on its Web site for the visually impaired. The ReadSpeaker feature, developed by VoiceCorp International, allows users to stream ...

A prominent criminal barrister believes the human services minister or one of his staff may have broken the law by giving out a Centrelink client's details. One of Australia's leading criminal ...

LONG queues, stuck at a phone, confusion, missed payments, fury. This is what it’s like at a branch of the beleaguered welfare agency. That’s the perception of some Australians trying to negotiate a ...