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Justin Lewis
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Horticulturist, former Archaeologist, amateur naturalist, socialist. Born and raised on unceded Kaurna meyunna yerta. Fascinated by humanity's ancient, complex, cultural relationship with plants through cultivation. Often referred to as...gardening.
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Illustrative of the government's approach to the system is an app the DEWR claims it built to provide "alerts on known risk areas".
, including providers booking dodgy
appointments that can penalise jobseekers.
When the ombudsman asked to see it, the department had to admit the app does not yet exist.
"Later in the investigation when we sought further information on this data App, DEWR changed its previous advice, stating that the risk monitoring data App for monitoring TCF [Targeted Compliance Framework]-related data was in fact not complete and was expected to be gathering data by late 2025," the ombudsman wrote.
The ombudsman revealed a catalogue of other examples where the department or Services Australia, which administers the welfare cancellations and occasionally checks the work of providers issuing suspensions, made misleading claims to his office, to him, to jobseekers and to the public.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y5jtxfxnv4exgujkdbmy43jp/bafkreiakutdnw67stuml4xooynfe6gms377a4rai6begtvzhqv3uxszyvy)
