Robo-debt royal commission
Opinion
NACC
Robo-debt wasn’t fair or legal. Because of a loophole we’ll never know if it was also corrupt
Australians have been left with the troubling conclusion that the national anti-corruption body doesn’t believe in the importance of its role in a case like this.
- by Waleed Aly
Latest
Anti-corruption body decided against robo-debt probe. Now it is being investigated
Last week, the anti-corruption commission said it would not launch an inquiry into robo-debt. That decision is now the subject of an investigation by the NACC’s inspector.
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
For subscribers
Robo-debt’s not dead, it’s just tormenting other people
Families are receiving letters saying that they owe debts to Centrelink because they were overpaid the childcare subsidy. Challenging the veracity of the debt is a nightmare.
- by Anne Hyland
Shorten vows to ‘re-humanise’ Services Australia in robo-debt response
The public service and Services Australia will be bolstered as the federal government vows to deliver “robo-justice” to welfare recipients affected by the Coalition’s unlawful debt recovery scheme.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Industry department in entrepreneur email fail
History repeats itself as the Department of Industry once again makes a mess of its grant program for female entrepreneurs.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Opinion
Centrelink
The robo-debt disaster tale isn’t over yet – here comes the prequel
Centrelink’s “income apportionment” method is a disastrous throwback to another ill-starred scheme that heaped misery on welfare claimants.
- by Waleed Aly
No mere Spectator, Tudge sets the record right on robo-debt
The one-time Morrison government minister is using a new magazine column to give his side of the scandal.
- by Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Liberal MP says robo-debt offended liberal values and royal commission was justified
Keith Wolahan said robo-debt offended the sanctity of the individual, due process and the presumption of innocence and urged his party to learn the lessons from it.
- by Paul Sakkal
Morrison lashes out at robo-debt ‘political lynching’, rejects royal commission findings
The former prime minister has described the commission’s findings against him as “disproportionate, wrong, unsubstantiated and contradicted by clear evidence”.
- by James Massola
Robo-debt bureaucrat quits her $900k-a-year defence job
Kathryn Campbell’s resignation, effective last Friday, comes after damning findings were made against her by the robo-debt royal commission.
- by Angus Thompson
Updated
Public service
Crossbench demands answers on robo-debt bureaucrat’s $900K AUKUS parachute
The robo-debt royal commission made a range of scathing findings against Kathryn Campbell, who ran the Department of Human Services when the welfare debt recovery scheme was introduced.
- by Angus Thompson
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