Vicki Machin
@vickimachin.bsky.social
Reader of information about our world. Mother and carer.
NDIS makes someone homeless and then says we’re not responsible for housing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"On Monday, after inquiries from Guardian Australia and ..an emergency meeting between the NDIA, hospital staff and Livingstone, she received a new NDIS plan including enough support worker hours to allow her to move back into the apartment and out of hospital."
"On Monday, after inquiries from Guardian Australia and ..an emergency meeting between the NDIA, hospital staff and Livingstone, she received a new NDIS plan including enough support worker hours to allow her to move back into the apartment and out of hospital."
‘I’m being punished’: Emily is healthy enough to leave hospital but she can’t because of NDIS funding cuts
Government cuts to the NDIS are forcing some disabled Australians to choose between living at home in an unsafe environment or staying indefinitely in hospital
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
NDIS makes someone homeless and then says we’re not responsible for housing.
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Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000
Exclusive: Services Australia spokesperson says automatic BPay payments and Centrelink being unable to contact customers may be to blame
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k
Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
www.abc.net.au
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Government is planning hardship for older Australians living at home johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Government is planning hardship for older Australians living at home
Aged care has again been in the media for all the wrong reasons. Two failures are attracting particular attention.
johnmenadue.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Government is planning hardship for older Australians living at home johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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All episodes of 'The People vs. Robodebt' are now available to stream via SBS On Demand, ahead of the TV premiere of the first episode at 7:30pm.
Please be aware if you've had a Robodebt or know others who have, it is quite intense.
#ThePeopleVSRobodebt
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
Please be aware if you've had a Robodebt or know others who have, it is quite intense.
#ThePeopleVSRobodebt
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
Watch The People vs Robodebt
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www.sbs.com.au
September 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
All episodes of 'The People vs. Robodebt' are now available to stream via SBS On Demand, ahead of the TV premiere of the first episode at 7:30pm.
Please be aware if you've had a Robodebt or know others who have, it is quite intense.
#ThePeopleVSRobodebt
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
Please be aware if you've had a Robodebt or know others who have, it is quite intense.
#ThePeopleVSRobodebt
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...
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What all this tells me is SILs effectively hid the needs of people with complex care requirements from society, from politicians and policy makers. No one who has spent significant time in them would ever think you could just close them
September 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
What all this tells me is SILs effectively hid the needs of people with complex care requirements from society, from politicians and policy makers. No one who has spent significant time in them would ever think you could just close them
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The level of profound specialist care at an individual level provided in SILs is unknowable to ppl who have never spent time in them. You can’t close them without an alternative
September 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The level of profound specialist care at an individual level provided in SILs is unknowable to ppl who have never spent time in them. You can’t close them without an alternative
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one of the last things I did before leaving work was on the urgent need to support folks with very high support needs living in group homes
this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front
archive.md/NT1Fi
this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front
archive.md/NT1Fi
archive.md
September 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
one of the last things I did before leaving work was on the urgent need to support folks with very high support needs living in group homes
this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front
archive.md/NT1Fi
this situation is completely untenable, and solvable if their needs are kept at the front
archive.md/NT1Fi
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So much I could say about the Robodebt Class Action re-settlement. But I am tired and in another time zone and will simply leave this here instead.
Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Exclusive: Government warned over ‘legal basis’ of welfare system
Despite being warned in 2018 that jobseekers were being exposed to unfair and excessive decisions, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations ‘chose to continue with the status quo’.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
So much I could say about the Robodebt Class Action re-settlement. But I am tired and in another time zone and will simply leave this here instead.
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As an activist who helped lead the campaign against Robodebt, I can only think back to the days when legal scholars told us we had no chance of winning in court, and how I thought, fuck it, we’ll keep fighting anyway
The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history
The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history
📢 Robo-debt victims and their families will receive up to an extra $475 million in compensation after they were wrongly hounded for welfare debt under the Coalition.
Largest class action payout in Australian history as government settles robo-debt appeal
www.smh.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
As an activist who helped lead the campaign against Robodebt, I can only think back to the days when legal scholars told us we had no chance of winning in court, and how I thought, fuck it, we’ll keep fighting anyway
The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history
The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history
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Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Exclusive: Government warned over ‘legal basis’ of welfare system
Despite being warned in 2018 that jobseekers were being exposed to unfair and excessive decisions, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations ‘chose to continue with the status quo’.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
August 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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Having bombed babies, hospital, schools & suburbs to oblivion, now luring & shooting starving civilians and stopping food reaching others, Israel is murdering witnesses & journalists. Netanyahu & cronies are avowed genocidal murderers, and our govt says they'll give him a call? Sanctions now.
Media network condemns ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
Al Jazeera condemns killing of its journalists by Israeli forces in Gaza
Media network condemns ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
bit.ly
August 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Having bombed babies, hospital, schools & suburbs to oblivion, now luring & shooting starving civilians and stopping food reaching others, Israel is murdering witnesses & journalists. Netanyahu & cronies are avowed genocidal murderers, and our govt says they'll give him a call? Sanctions now.
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The ghost of Robodebt – Federal Court rules billions of dollars in welfare debts must be recalculated theconversation.com/the-ghost-of...
The ghost of Robodebt – Federal Court rules billions of dollars in welfare debts must be recalculated
The ruling has allowed the Department of Social Services to resume pursuing historical welfare debts, which the Ombudsman has previously found to be unlawful.
theconversation.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The ghost of Robodebt – Federal Court rules billions of dollars in welfare debts must be recalculated theconversation.com/the-ghost-of...
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Its time we start applying the same diplomacy we use with China, to the United States
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
'Diplomatic maturity': Australia must find its place in the global order
Australia must take a proper look at the global order, its place in it and why it remains caught in the slipstream of competing interests.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
July 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Its time we start applying the same diplomacy we use with China, to the United States
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme
Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
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Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"
Australia's duopoly is cruel, captured and must be destroyed - The Shot
Parliamentary politics cannot save us - but we might be able to save parliamentary politics. The ALP and the Coalition cannot be trusted.
theshot.net.au
December 3, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"