Centrelink debt debacle shows government is unprepared for digital revolution
7 February 2017
The Age
The public service needs to embrace partnerships if it's to harvest big data's massive yields.
The public service needs to embrace partnerships if it's to harvest big data's massive yields.
The St Vincent de Paul Society has called on the government to ensure that Centrelink is kept in public hands and properly resourced to support people rather than punish them, after a debt recovery scheme aimed at returning nearly $4 billion to the budget left thousands of clients with miscalculated bills.