Talk:Centrelink

message: Would this count as reliable resourec for the all-being crap-ness of centrelink?--ZZ 07:44, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  External references on complaints or client dissatisfaction

message: I am currently testing an automated Wikipedia link suggester. Ran it on this article, here are the results:
* Can link unemployment benefits: ...g pensions, student allowances, and unemployment benefits (the 'dole'). Additionally, Centrelink ...
* Cannot effectively link the Commonwealth: ...  Centrelink operates under the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency Act 1997....  see below
* Can link welfare payment: ... surrounding fraud and abuse of the welfare payment system, competency of staff, and qualit...
* Can link January 1: ...primary students who turned 14 prior to January 1 of their current year of study. To qual...
Notes: The article text has not been changed in any way; Some of these links may be wrong, some may be right; You can leave positive feedback or negative feedback; Please feel free to delete this section from the talk page.  -- Nickj 08:41, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Wiki Links

message: If it's criticisms you're after look no further than any news article about Centrelink. The comments sections tend to be filled with criticisms of both Centrelink and the agencies it liaisons with provide its services.
For example:
https://newmatilda.com/2014/08/12/dole-bludgers-revenge
In mentioning this article, the fact that an application exists for automating dealing with the government is cause for concern to begin with and perhaps warrants further investigation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.59.99 (talk) 04:54, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism? 

message: removed some pov stuff about centrelink and youth. if there are some genuine and referenced criticisms perhaps a criticisms section, written in npov as possible, should be included. frymaster 07:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: At the moment this page is more about Australia's social security and welfare system than Centrelink. I propose that this article be split into 
Australian Social Security System - an article mostly about the legisaltion and mechanics of Centrelink (and DVA) payments.
AND
Centrelink - an article about the organisation, its origins and reputation.
This makes more sense to me than the large number of subheadings we have at the moment. I will do this sometime next week unless there is some objection Jabberwalkee 12:11, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Split 

message: Robo-debt is back in the news again.  Samantha Maiden, 2020-06-02, "Emails reveal government knew Centrelink ‘robo-debt’ scheme was illegal" The New Daily  (and similar stories in other outlets).  Pelagic (talk) 01:29, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robo-debt 

message: It may be worth giving the robo-debt scheme its own page, given the amount of media coverage, ongoing legal challenges and public controversy. B 897 (talk) 05:23, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Robo-debt own page?

message: There wasn't always a Centrelink.
I remember its predecessor but not its name. Does anyone? 49.3.72.79 (talk) 04:41, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: DSS. It says in the article. Doctorhawkes (talk) 07:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

text: Then you remember incorrectly, I'm afraid. The sign on the door used to say DSS, then changed to Centrelink. Doctorhawkes (talk) 21:46, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

text: It was DSS when I worked there for a couple of years in the mid-1970s. Perhaps the IPuser is thinking of the related but separate government agency, the Commonwealth Employment Service, which was superseded by the privatised Job Network system. Bahudhara (talk) 07:23, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centrelink's predecessor