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One of the admin jobs Cassandra Francisco applied for this month had 796 applicants. The average has been 416.

Only 12 days after Melbourne hopes to leave stage 4, the feds will cut welfare benefits by $300 a fortnight.

theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol #melbournelockdown
In general, the areas struggling most have also been hardest hit by the virus.

We estimate about 420,000 Melburnians now under stage 4 lockdown will be hit by the $300 cut to coronavirus supplement
Meanwhile, Victoria-wide Treasury analysis released today finds that since 26 June the number of unemployment benefit recipients rose by about 27,600, or 7.2%. theguardian.com/australia-news…
And research released this week by the Australian National University says the reduction to the supplement will push 740,000 people back below the poverty line. csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/research/publi…
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The NDIS Commission has told the royal commission eight NDIS participants have died from Covid-19 during the pandemic. One NDIS worker has also died. #disabilityrc
The Commission is getting a bit of a pasting here for not being proactive in checking that providers are meeting their obligations, particularly during the pandemic
Oh dear. The commission's registrar, Samantha Taylor, is asked if "procedures and practices during the time of the coronavirus pandemic have not materially changed since pre-coronavirus?" She says: "That is correct"
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Top bureaucrats from Services Australia and DSS will be fronting the #robodebt Senate inquiry from 1pm. I will be live tweeting where I can. Lots of important questions, let's hope there are lots of answers too! #auspol
We're underway! I'm excited. Can't wait to count how many times we hear the public interest immunity claim invoked.
DSS secretary Kathryn Campbell is making an opening statement. She notes the program changed another of time "in response to feedback".
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Instead the department official “went on about how people shouldn’t be leaving their homes and how people shouldn’t be watching foreign news: ‘They should be watching Australian news.’ theguardian.com/australia-news…
.@amona_hassab raised concerns with a department official in March: “I made the suggestions and he said in quite a patronising way: ‘Do you actually believe people would listen to those or comply if we were to put up posters saying you should be 1.5 metres apart?'"
Pandemic or not, public housing residents regularly struggle to get their concerns addressed. When you combine the class element and racism, this is what people are up against.
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