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Post by murphy on Jan 6, 2017 6:45:54 GMT 7
Thanks for staying on this, symi. Hopefully these folk mentioned in your posts will keep at it, too, until the monster is shut down.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 7:12:33 GMT 7
Thanks for staying on this, symi. Hopefully these folk mentioned in your posts will keep at it, too, until the monster is shut down. No problems , Murphy.. All this makes my blood boil !!
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 8:22:57 GMT 7
I've rarely seen such across the board anger in the forum.
Interesting comment on Twitter about how enthusiastic Centrelink are in repaying anyone overstating their income and how long it would take.
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Post by krystal on Jan 6, 2017 8:39:29 GMT 7
I've rarely seen such across the board anger in the forum. Interesting comment on Twitter about how enthusiastic Centrelink are in repaying anyone overstating their income and how long it would take. Dear Banjo For those of us that don't twit .. errr twitler ... err tweet .. yeah that's the one What did it say?
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 8:48:57 GMT 7
I just made a tweet, social media holds no fears for Banjo, unfortunately I may have inadvertently agreed with @centrelink.
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 8:50:50 GMT 7
Wow, look what I just did, only copied and pasted the link and the whole tweet comes up with a nice pic... We really need to get into this stuff, we had someone here who was fluent in tweet but she moved on.
Interesting that @centrelink responds to tweets.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 9:14:43 GMT 7
From my look at the Twitterverse I'd say if they spent more time working and less making bird calls people's calls may actually be answered.
It still beggars the bezeezus out of me though, I do concur a dedicated user could make a heck of a difference to the forum. Cheers bear
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 9:17:22 GMT 7
It's a time thing with me, I try to keep up with the FaceBook page but the effort involved with Twitter scares the crap out of me. I have a friend with about a thousand followers and his phone is never out of his hand.
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 9:20:25 GMT 7
Labor's Linda Burney requests Auditor-General investigate Centrelink debt clawbackLinda Burney, Labor's human services spokeswoman, has written to the Australian National Audit Office requesting they investigate Centrelink's controversial $4.5 billion debt clawback project amid ongoing accusations that it is unfairly targeting people and miscalculating bills. The opposition and community groups are maintaining pressure on the government as the new system, enabled by data-matching with Australian Taxation Office information, causes consternation by handing out mistakenly oversized debts and contacting some social security recipients who don't owe Centrelink any money. Letters are being wrongly sent by Centrelink to people saying they owe the Government money and it's so frightening to some, they're even suicidal according to Independent MP Andrew Wilkie. Courtesy ABC News 24. Ms Burney's letter to Auditor-General Grant Hehir requests that, in light of "overwhelming" constituent complaints about the contentious process, the ANAO examine the effectiveness, risk management and planning of the system and the actual value of the resulting budget savings, including analysis of whether falsely calculated debts have already been banked. "There is considerable public concern over the administration of this program as well as a lack of clarity around the value of 'savings' derived from the program to date," she said in the letter, provided to Fairfax Media. www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labors-linda-burney-requests-auditorgeneral-investigate-centrelink-debt-clawback-20170105-gtmkqd.html
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Post by krystal on Jan 6, 2017 9:40:38 GMT 7
Well I did actually try and sign up for a Twitter account once on my computer (as I don't have a mobile because of my vision problems).
But when I tried to log on to my brand new account it said I needed to input a mobile number so they could send me an SMS to verify my account.
I did try to check the twitter feed for both Centrelink and Human Services Department but I can't without an account.
Just as a PS - Did anyone else notice the Tweets directed to the old age pensioners? I know a few Old Age Pensioners and the ones with mobiles (very few) don't know how to answer a SMS let along sign up for Twitter.
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Post by krystal on Jan 6, 2017 9:42:46 GMT 7
I just made a tweet, social media holds no fears for Banjo, unfortunately I may have inadvertently agreed with @centrelink. Did Centrelink answer her?
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 9:47:26 GMT 7
From my look at the Twitterverse I'd say if they spent more time working and less making bird calls people's calls may actually be answered. It still beggars the bezeezus out of me though, I do concur a dedicated user could make a heck of a difference to the forum. Cheers bear I think that they have a "Social Media Officer", someone used to reply to stuff like yahoo answers and even some forums (not ours) etc. She was a bit careless, I'm no tech genius but I ran a few searches and came up with her real name. Not clever at all....
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 9:55:00 GMT 7
I just made a tweet, social media holds no fears for Banjo, unfortunately I may have inadvertently agreed with @centrelink. Did Centrelink answer her? Yeah, I don't know how to get back to it now, what they said was to ring Centrelink for the information personally, there was a few other people commenting as well. She replied that it wasn't a personal issue, just a general inquiry. I lost the track about then.
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Post by murphy on Jan 6, 2017 10:00:17 GMT 7
I think peacesells spends some time in the Twitterverse?
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Post by Banjo on Jan 6, 2017 11:18:40 GMT 7
What you have to realise is that you're not using an administratively protected environment like this forum. The much overrated freedom of speech equation comes into play and people can say what they like and call people what they want. Anyone running an account will be subject to racist, homophobic, sexist, right wing and whatever other kinds of abuse you can think of. I know because we used to delete it regularly here.
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