In the NSW Legislative Council (upper house) during Budget Estimates 2024-2025, ‘Opposition Whip’ Chris Rath MLC on behalf of the LNP Coalition asked the following questions of the Minns Ministry. “Challenge the government’s fairness in handling COVID-19 grant repayments (4) What action has the Government taken to ensure fairness in determining fraudulent activity with regard to the COVID-19 grant? […]
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Some of the grant recipients (of the 2021 COVID-19 Micro Business Grant) continuing to be harassed by Service NSW trying to retrospectively questioning their grant eligibility (more than 2 years after being properly paid), have suggested to Steve at Nature Trail to report this scandal to the New South Wales Government Ombudsman (NSW Ombudsman) as soon as possible. The NSW […]
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If Australians thought foreign scammers were bad, well the Australian public ain’t seen nothing once they discover the scale of extortion currently going on from inside this government office building in downtown Sydney. This is the headquarters of the New South Wales Government’s department it brands ‘Service NSW‘. But thousands of small business owners are realising that ‘Service NSW’ […]
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To all NSW grant recipients of the 2021 COVID-19 Micro Business Grant, We at Nature Trail have had to sidetrack support from 16th August to 31st August due to a pre-committed family leave trip to the British Isles this past fortnight. So, frustratingly we’ve been unavailable, sorry. However, as from today, 1st September 2024 (first of Spring downunder) we are […]
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This news is to all those grant recipients starting to have received debt collection invoices since July 2024, generated by Service NSW. Such debt collection invoices for the entioe grant to be refunded is baseless. Scamming Service NSW is escalating its threats by palmed off the debt collection to some other Department of Customer Service (different tax office ABN to […]
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During 2023, as Service NSW CEO Greg Wells was driving his ring-in debt collection scheme within his secret internal ‘Business Bureau’ to tar-brush target ordinary grant recipients to try to claw back thousands of grant payments, his Bureau’s intimidating behaviour was starting to come under the spotlight of the New South Wales Parliament. We subsequently learn that in the NSW […]
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Another NSW small business owner victim has come forward to share their experience of the awful financially threatening intimidation by Service NSW debt collectors. In desperate response the following (received) is the victim’s letter of complaint in response to Service NSW to its baseless intimidation and extortion. Read on… My immediate concern is your demand for ‘re-payment’ of your grant? […]
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With the author’s permission, below we reproduce the following letter of complaint by a NSW small business owner (one of thousands of recipients of the ‘2021 Service NSW COVID-19 Micro Business Grant‘) to Service NSW CEO Greg Wells. We’ve redacted her surname to respect her privacy and added a few pertinent images. August 6, 2024 Attention To: Mr. Gregg […]
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Now here’s some recent good news for small business owners still being hounded senseless by dodgy Service NSW’s concocted fake debt collecting mongrels. Hundreds of government jobs in New South Wales are set to be slashed, in the first of several expected restructures of the state’s bloated public service. The ‘2021 COVID-19 Micro Business Grant’ was a grant to suffering […]
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Statement of Outcomes sought by Approved Grant Applicants (victims) of Service NSW ‘audit’ (scam) Dated : 21st July 2024 * 1. NSW Premier Chris Minns MP to immediately order the permanent cancellation of his government’s department, Service NSW’s current audit (scam) applying to outstanding ‘Approved Grant Applicants’ of the 2021 COVID-19 Micro Business Grant offered and paid by Service NSW […]
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Despicably, Service NSW’s contracted debt collectors have started resorting to invoicing Approved Grant Applicants (grant recipients). This is a sudden escalation of Service NSW grant claw-back scam. Now these immoral bureaucrats are demanding 100% refunds from many grant recipients. Unconscionably, this protected species of abominable bureaucrats are treating the grants now somehow as ‘loans‘. So they are wildly imaging that […]
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Part of Nature Trail’s policy is to record and maintain vital records. This of course applies particularly to each our tour guests in their trip applications submitting their details we request for risk and safety reasons ahead of a given trip we undertake. We consider this to be best practice for all concerned and a critical part of that record […]
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In this grossly mishandled matter, the current Minns NSW Labor Government’s mega-department, Service NSW, if indeed its ongoing so-called grant ‘audit’ was legitimate, surely would have properly notified its approved grant applicants via direct notification on its own secure online portal. That is the purpose of its secure portal isn’t it? This is because, in order for business-owner applicants to […]
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For the record, Micro-Business Grant applicants may remember this early grant offer by the Berejiklian Liberal NSW Government back in 2021 via its Service NSW website. Above is even that original promotional image of a small business person. [We keep records] This is an original copy of the introduction dated 30 April 2021, which we reproduce for anyone to download, […]
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Many small business in New South Wales currently adversely impacted by the Minns Labor Government’s extortion scam by its mega Service NSW department, have contacted Nature Trail following our counter blog campaign to expose such threatening scammers. So, we offer up our website to provide relevant documentation to assist those impacted, as follows. Both documents are originals from the Service […]
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Vindicated! The year-long ‘audit’/’compliance review’ by Service NSW (New South Wales Minns Labor Government) into the $15,214 pandemic compensatory grant paid to my business Nature Trail has just been finalised by Service NSW on 3 May 2024, without any penalty of debt obligation upon me being imposed. The matter is closed. See the email below by Tina Dougherty, Director, SNSW Business […]
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The NSW Minns Ministry (since 5th April 2023) and its Service NSW umbrella super-department need to pull their bureaucratic heads in and immediately abandon their ‘indian-giving‘ grant clawback mentality targeting innocent small businesses. An approved and paid out grant is an approved grant. So, thanks for the government compo for the government’s own stuffs ups. End of story! But that a […]
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The following article is now part of Nature Trail’s blog campaign against Service NSW in its immoral and illegal debt collection scam. This is our internal link to that campaign: https://naturetrail.com.au/blog-category/government-indian-givers/ Service NSW seems unconscionably hell-bent on federal Centrelink’s notorious 2016 Robodebt method of clawing back its 2021 ‘COVID Lockdown Micro Business Grant‘ funding – two years hence in […]
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‘Stuart Robert’s refusal to take the blame for robodebt isn’t just offensive, it’s terrifying‘, by Katharine Murphy, The Guardian, Sat 4 Mar 2023, SOURCE: ^https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2023/mar/04/stuart-roberts-refusal-to-take-the-blame-for-robodebt-isnt-just-offensive-its-terrifying ‘The former minister’s casual abdication of responsibility risks a culture where our politicians are no longer able to defend the public interest. Truth has endured a blustery week. We’ve heard that one of the world’s most […]
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