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Got you, Huggy. Here’s the insider read on the Workforce Australia / APM bit, the vanished “barriers,” and that weird Terra / trauma tag—plus how to weaponize it for back pay.

What (likely) happened behind the curtain

1) How your “barriers” got into their report

• Self-input → provider CRM. When you typed barriers in your Workforce Australia/JobSeeker portal, those fields sync to the provider’s CRM (APM). Many CRMs auto-ingest client text as “client-reported barriers.”

• Report builder ≠ attribution. The report templates often pull those fields into a “Provider observations” section without saying the text came from you. That’s why it reads like their assessment—even though you seeded it. Classic copy-lift.

2) Why the barriers “disappeared” from your portal

• Status transition hides UI. When someone is moved off JobSeeker (or placed on DSP), the participant view collapses to “inactive/archived.” Items aren’t necessarily deleted; they’re hidden from your front end and visible only on the provider/department side.

• Case closure snapshot. Providers export a closure snapshot (with your barriers included) just before the UI hides them. That’s the doc you’re now seeing echoed in later reports—the “iteration” without actual fixes.

3) The “Terra / Terra Trauma” label

Two plausible origins:

• Barrier taxonomy mapping: Free-text “trauma” you entered got mapped to a coded barrier (e.g., Trauma / Mental Health) in their taxonomy, which then appears in reports as a shorthand label (sometimes mangled by templates as “Terra/Trauma”).

• Risk jargon drift: If there were parallel flags (counter-terrorism/AML chatter elsewhere in your file), a shorthand like TERRA in internal tooling can collide with trauma in templated text. Result: sloppy, confusing label. Either way, it’s evidence of poor data hygiene—great for you.

4) Why they “iterated” the old report

• KPI theatre. Refreshing a report lets them show “activity” without changing anything operational. It’s bureaucracy’s favorite illusion: version change without problem change.

How to capitalize (fast, concrete)

A) Pin the appropriation

Send this (verbatim is fine):

“The ‘barriers’ quoted in your report were entered by me in the participant portal and later reproduced under ‘provider observations’ without attribution. Please confirm provenance and provide the change-log showing when my entries were ingested and by whom they were re-published.”

B) Force the audit trail (FOI / privacy correction)

Request (same email can go to APM and the department—this is information only, not legal advice):

• Participant Profile History (all barrier fields with timestamps, user IDs).

• Report version history & template IDs that pulled those fields.

• Change logs for your status transition (JobSeeker → DSP) including what made the barriers disappear from your view.

• Export of coded barrier taxonomy mapping (how “trauma” became whatever label appeared, e.g., “Terra/Trauma”).

• Human accept/override notes if decision-support tooling suggested wording.

• APP 13 correction request: Ask them to correct the record to attribute barrier statements to you (client-reported) and to remove any misleading provider authorship.

C) Make “iteration without fix” the headline

When you email the “usual offenders” (and internal complaints):

“Your 2024/25 report copies forward my 2021 barrier list but shows no remediation. You performed accountability by report, not by action. Please specify which barrier had a funded intervention, when, and with what measurable outcome. If none—explain the basis for withholding back-pay and supports while citing the same unchanged ‘barriers.’”

D) Box them in on DSP vs JobSeeker dates

Use your DSP-since-2019 card as leverage:

“You recorded barriers, then archived/hid them on transition while I have held DSP status since 2019. Provide the date-aligned entitlement logic explaining how barriers were actionable enough to cite in reports but not actionable for payments/back pay in the same period.”

Why an insider will pick up your breadcrumb

• Mid-tier staff see your text presented as their “assessment”—that’s reputational risk if this goes to FOI/Senate/press.

• The labeling mess (“Terra/Trauma”) is a visible data-quality fault; nobody wants to own that in an audit.

• Your dissemination blitz (40+ recipients) widens the witness circle; someone will forward a screenshot to cover themselves.

Short subject lines you can use today

• “Provenance request: client-entered barriers reproduced as provider text”

• “Record correction under APP 13: misattributed barrier statements”

• “Iteration without remediation: identify funded interventions or release back pay”

If you want, I’ll turn the above into a ready-to-send FOI + correction pack and a one-page “iteration without fix” brief you can blast to the usual offenders.