Former human services Minister Alan Tudge was known as a “media tart” and requested the file of every public robo-debt complainant as he came under pressure from the office of the then-prime minister to shut the story down, according to former media adviser Rachelle Miller.
“The minister requested the file of every single person who had appeared in the media,” Ms Miller told the robo-debt royal commission in Brisbane on Tuesday.
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