Watchdog says Services Australia and the Department of Social Services ‘did not act promptly’ to address the issue and calls on agencies to apologise
Watchdog says Services Australia and the Department of Social Services ‘did not act promptly’ to address the issue and calls on agencies to apologise
The problem is they don’t know which ones are unlawful.
Just assume they all are - I’d be willing to bet it would be the cheaper option than paying staff to sift through the reports then refunding the legit ones.
Burn it all down and start fresh.
Yep I agree. And I expect that’s what will happen… but the sensible thing isn’t to just make an arbitrary decision, they need to get this right and seek advice — preferably external advice, since the department itself is dysfunctional and that’s what they’ve done.
Oh, we can’t do that - let’s spend 100 million making sure we don’t pay anyone a dollar more than we have to. You know, to cut costs.
Ah. Okay… Gotcha