jeremy poxon

back online 'cause the government is illegally punishing welfare recipients again / Email me if you have mutual obligations issues: [email protected]

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Could be a good time for the media to mention that the system unemployed ppl get funnelled into is operating unlawfully

Two damning ombudsman reports, a sacked secretary, & hundreds of thousands of illegal payment cancellations. I cover the scandal here: https://t.co/nlQs3oJv45

[David Taylor @DaveTaylorNews]

Australia's unemployment rate has jumped to 4.5%

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Department has justified not paying their "lived experience panel" because "being on the panel does not automatically involve any effort or participation"??

We are taking tokenism to thrilling new heights

(You also can't use the panel to meet mutual obligation requirements)

[vinni • 包沁燕 🇵🇸 @glyphclutter]

huge invite from my jsp, lads — wonder if ol mate saz russo will be at the workforce ‘lived experience’ panel @JeremyPoxon

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"The real lesson from decades of harm is not that we need to tweak compulsory activities. It is that we need to abandon compulsion and place our trust in people instead of providers."
https://t.co/0unYXwC5Ok

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

defeating racist authoritarianism by linking Pauline to a reading list

[Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycent]

WATCH LIVE: Rick Morton joins us to launch the mini documentary No Room to Breathe alongside Cheyanne, an artist and welfare recipient who contributed to the Commonwealth Ombudsman's investigation into unlawful welfare compliance for people on Centrelink.

https://t.co/yOfPT00QPj

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Starting in an hour! get amongst it: https://t.co/IeAlzeX3M9

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Tonight! Join us + Rick Morton for an online event about the employment services / welfare compliance scandal: https://t.co/IeAlzeX3M9

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Tonight! Join us + Rick Morton for an online event about the employment services / welfare compliance scandal: https://t.co/IeAlzeX3M9

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

A major new study has looked at the impact of the Australian welfare system on the rates of suicide

It concludes that effective suicide prevention would mean raising JobSeeker payments & replacing punitive mutual obligations (such as Work for the Dole)
https://t.co/GPaKNCsbit

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@fuzzybluerain extra insulting that it's run by a former Collingwood player https://t.co/aZQxuxNyQm

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@777nunya777 be keen to hear more about this if you'd like to msg or email me: [email protected]

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

I've seen reports that job providers are already using AI without Departmental approval.

Here's a Sarina Russo worker saying staff who don't use AI "will receive a warning and eventually be terminated"

[The Mandarin @TheMandarinAU]

Workforce Australia AI plans face delays as DEWR assesses privacy, cybersecurity, and automated decision-making risks.

https://t.co/Te5PtsbqaX

[nunya @777nunya777]

@JeremyPoxon A case manager put my resume through chat gpt then copy and pasted the result and labelled it my new resume. When I had an appointment he wasn't there for I was in with his boss and she tried to have a go at me about the resume so I told her straight that was not my doing lol

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

The Department has admitted to many thousands of unlawful cancellations. The last Ombudsman report also indicated large numbers of incorrect payment suspensions

The government just said these victims of UNLAWFUL punishments should join their "lived experience panel". I stg

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"@ej_australia estimated that under 42AM there could be up to 310k people affected [by unlawful payment cancellations]. What's your estimate?"

Department: "It is in the vicinity of that"

Well, nice of them to finally-sorta-vaguely acknowledge some of the scale of this scandal

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@Rijsixmj_669 @tankbusteronPD would be keen to hear more details of this if you wanted to msg or email: [email protected]

[Peebs @tankbusteronPD]

@JeremyPoxon Before I got on DSP I watched the job agent just dump my entire resume into ChatGPT without my permission. When I said I’m pretty sure that’s a privacy breach he was just like ‘we’ve been told to do it, we have training on it next week’

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

@clearticulation @RMcCoy22012711 case notes I reckon

[Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycent]

🗞️ Today SBS is doing (yet another) story about how unliveable the JobSeeker payment is.

If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne and are interested in being interviewed for tonight’s news, send us an email via [email protected]

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

"The new system still rests on the same old assumption: that unemployment is a personal failing requiring behavioural correction. The problem, we are told, is still the people."

https://t.co/8a6O8m1AUM

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Or, another way to put this: the government has been hiding the true number of unlawful mutual obligation cancellations for years https://t.co/rAbCUUIx9R

[Audit Office (ANAO) @ANAO_Australia]

Public contribution is open: Management of Centrelink automated decision-making https://t.co/rnvnQmqYEr

[Tom Studans @maximumwelfare]

This Government and this Department both need a very serious reality check.

DEWR does not have ANYTHING like the administrative capacity to manage 'mutual obligations', and $300m will not change this.

Currently, the complaints service run by DEWR can have a wait time of >4hrs.