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Organisation

Economic Justice Australia


Economic Justice Australia is the peak organisation for community legal centres providing specialist advice to people on their social security issues and rights.

Report

Debt, duress and dob-ins: Centrelink compliance processes and domestic violence

This report, looking at Centrelink debts and domestic violence, shows that survivors of domestic violence, usually women, are unfairly held solely responsible for social security debts in situations where the debt was the direct result of their partner’s or ex-partner’s threats, physical violence or coercion.