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The penalties were suspended more than two years ago, with two subsequent reports by the Commonwealth Ombudsman exposing unlawful cancellations and failings in the government’s approach to compensating affected people.
In August 2025, Commonwealth Ombudsman Iain Anderson recommended the government establish a compensation scheme.
A second report in December 2025 found the department’s remediation approach was unfair and unreasonable, warning that stigma against job seekers may also contribute to inadequate oversight of employment service providers.
I support many of the issues she does, but she seems to like attention and the spotlight more than actually improving the issues.
She also seems to be quite ineffective as a senator and takes actions which go against those she claims to campaign for. Her opposition to the voice, for instance, gave racists an opportunity to say it wasn’t wanted by atsi people. Her protest if police at Mardi gras made it seem like the police were the good guys.
No more than the others
Her recent bill on shackling women prisoners, mistreatment of women if you will, would prove otherwise, as would her voting record in the Senate.
Again, her voting record, attendance and work would suggest otherwise. Yes, he opposition to the Voice was disappointing.
Is as welcome to me as her stance against Zionism and colonialism, which is to say it’s very much so.
Thorpe is representative of a vibrant Senate and probably one of our best. Despite her letting us down on the referendum on indigenous sovereignty (I voted yes on the first point not the second) she’s done us far more good than harm.