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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Christopher Knaus |Lorena Allam
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Lorena Allam
Energy giant AGL is disputing a “manifestly excessive” $25m fine for using the Centrepay debit system to wrongly take welfare money from hundreds of vulnerable Australians. It argues that a judge should not have used the massive financial penalty to try to “provoke some attention” from the company’s board and executive leadership.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Lorena Allam |Nick Evershed
The final findings of the “horrendous” eight-year long “massacre map”, tracing the violent history of the Australian colonial frontier have been released. The Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project, spearheaded by the late emerita professor of history at the University of Newcastle, Dr Lyndall Ryan, officially concluded in 2022. Since then, researchers have reviewed every site on the map, with contributions from the general public, volunteers and peer reviewers.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Reged Ahmad |Lorena Allam |Laura Corrigan |Miles Herbert |Cinnamon Nippard |Hannah Parkes
Since the failure of the voice referendum, the government has been very quiet when it comes to Indigenous affairs. But the prime minister has given an update on what he plans to do next to close the gap on outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. As she farewells Guardian Australia, Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam talks to Reged Ahmad about why there’s a leadership vacuum when it comes to First Nations policy
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Lorena Allam
Government services minister, Bill Shorten, has called for “someone senior at AGL” to be held accountable for the company’s misuse of the Centrepay payment system to wrongly take money from the welfare payments of former customers. On Thursday, the federal court imposed a record fine of $25m on AGL for receiving and retaining money from welfare recipients who had ceased being its customers.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Lorena Allam
Energy giant AGL promised to stop wrongly taking money from the welfare payments of ex-customers via Centrepay years before it inexplicably allowed the unlawful practice to continue, diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pockets of vulnerable Australians over more than four years, a court has heard.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Christopher Knaus |Lorena Allam
The federal government will boot predatory rent-to-buy operators off its Centrepay debit system as part of sweeping reforms designed to stop the financial abuse of vulnerable Australians. The reforms, set to be announced Monday, follow a Guardian Australian investigation that revealed shocking failures with the Centrepay system and helped trigger an urgent government review.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Lorena Allam |Sarah Collard |Ella Archibald-Binge
“They were killed where we live,” said the Northern Territory coroner this week, as she handed down findings in an inquest into the horrific domestic violence deaths of four Aboriginal women. On Monday – the world day for the elimination of violence against women – Elisabeth Armitage delivered her long-awaited findings on the “senseless, shocking and preventable” deaths of Ngeyo Ragurrk, Kumanjayi Heywood, Kumarn Rubuntja and Miss Yunupingu.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Lorena Allam
The Bundjalung writer Melissa Lucashenko’s extraordinary run of literary prize wins for her latest novel Edenglassie continues, winning yet another accolade on Wednesday evening: the $40,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib prize. Edenglassie, a sweeping historical novel named after the penal colony that became Brisbane, has now earned close to the $200,000 mark before tax. “I’m a socialist, I don’t mind paying tax,” the author added.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sarah Collard |Lorena Allam
Women’s safety advocates are urging governments and the police to take immediate action after a landmark coroner’s report exposed systemic failings that contributed to the deaths of four Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory. The NT coroner Elisabeth Armitage on Monday handed down findings into the deaths of Miss Yunupiŋu, Ngeygo Ragurrk, Kumarn Rubuntja and Kumanjayi Haywood, making 35 recommendations aimed at stemming what she called the “epidemic of violence”.
