Bill Shorten launches class action against Centrelink's controversial robo-debt system

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Breaking: Lawyers and former Labor leader Bill Shorten have unveiled a class action against Centrelink's controversial robo-debt welfare recovery scheme.

 

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Go Bill!

Just wasting our hard earned money to earn points

Reckon he’d be keen for a win....just sayin.

Country would have been so much different had bill won a fed icac dismantling of robodebt for eg

👏🏻I voted for billshortenmp and who ever voted for LiberalAus s in so much pain now!

👏🏻I voted for Shorten and who ever voted for Morrison s in so much pain now!

Good work Bill, so many people unfairly targetted and left distraught.

Another failure on the way.

I haven't seen anything like this in a while. Shadow Minister going above and beyond. I'm truly impressed.

Good to see a politician standing up for people whose on welfare. It's hard enough to stigmatized and to live in below minimum wage, for a liberal government to take advantage of that is just sickening.

The Robodebt he launched?

Good on you Bill. Good job

Yesss Bill!

👍

With Shorten assisting they are doomed.

I’m both shocked and delighted. Bill is finally behaving like an Opposition.

Good on em

Nice one! Just a thought, can we re-work robodebt to cover parliamentary spending claims? Put the onus of proving that the money was appropriately spent on the politicians? And recover money with damages costs too?

I thought all your supporters went to New Zealand to Live. Maybe people should take out a class action on your legislation for Pay Day loans which have cripple the poor

GabriellaS24 That should stuff Friedburgers pretend surplus

Yay

Grandstanding

Bill Shorten, Shadow Minister for Government Services. Fixed it for you, . It's not hard to use his correct title. FFS 😡

Excellent news. Thank you Bill Shorten, a man of integrity and with a social conscience.

Thank you billshortenmp

About time, Centrelink have been accusing people of crimes for decades, often without having any real evidence, surely this is serious fraud. Their defence may be ' the computer lied to us and made us do it'

How good is Bill Shorten 💋

Phoebe2302 RoboCop will sort out Robodebt!!

Phoebe2302 Bill, drill and kill Robodebt!!!

TonyPorpGrant BillShorten Would Very Much Like To Tell You About His Collection Of Historical Figurines

well SCOMO would never have instigated this COWARD

Bout time!

Go for it Bill and co

Nice work billshortenmp a practical & beneficial step to address this appalling system robodebt

Suck that up, Hank. Robodebt NotMyDebt

Good one Bill. This caused so much grief for friends

State politicians litigating against their own country. How that can be good for Australia?

I wish you were still leader Bill . You stand for what you believe in . Your not scared to ruffle the feathers of this grubby government that got into power with lies and Rupert Murdoch. You rock Bill auspol

AnthonyCole68 Good on you Bill, that’s showing leadership

Labor flips on ‘robo-debt’ system created by Bill Shorten & Plibersek you mean.. Fix it

Good.

AmandaPerram Way to go Bill, Stand up for the less fortunate !!!

Wanker.

Thats a good start, then we can go each and every government for broken election promises, hardship caused by excessive taxation, failure to maintain the cost of living, and finally a class action against the RBA, for financial suffering, upon every interest rate rise. joke

Can a member of Parliament launch a legal action against Government for a portfolio he is assigned to lead in opposition. What does the Act say?

He is running for Centrelink!!!!

Get irrelevant bs Bill off my newsfeed!!! Roboclown

Goooo Bill!!👏👏💋💋

Another ALP publicity stunt.

Let Justice be served to those who need it

SBS Boo yea.. great time to be a lawyer...money money money

Thank you Bill 👍

So the new Bill Shorten decides legal action is the way to solve all past failures

Maybe robo debt was one step too far?! Love this!

Good onya Bill.

Bold election strategy!

Good on them!

Jenn1964Hussey Way to go Bill 👍🏻

Wow! About time something was done, there are so many people affected, including families and loved ones of those who died because of it. Shame on this government.

SBS The absolute thieves, not to mention people who have taken their own lives over it. Someone said it’s tragic yesterday and I said it’s criminal. What kind of country do we want to be? With this ridiculous welfare card. We’re stealing from the poor to give to the rich.

Very good and.much appreciated

I’m sure Bill is right, I mean Bill wouldn’t bugger things up would he?🙄

bet there will be braindead LNP supporters saying: hE wIlL lOsE tHiS oNe LiKe He LoSt ThE eLeCtIon

Yay Bill !!

RBJRON Good on you Bill ,such a good man.

SBS Great news. I got robodebt thrown at me and harassed every few months for years. Unless you had all the emails and proof around what was said during phone calls (that's IF you could ever get through to CenterLink) it felt like you had no recourse at all.

AnthonyCole68 billshortenmp I could kissyou! I could even go so far as to blow a raspberry on your belly but I know your partner would want 1st dibs after such awesome proaction. Asher_Wolf WooHooBill auspol Never underestimate theNoteTaker on robodebt

AnthonyCole68 Go Bill!

broomstick33 Now I know why we ended up with Scummo for PM. People like Trek probably voted for that faux Christian and all round charleton Morrison . Bill Shorten probably would have just scrapped Robodebt because it's extremely flawed.

SBS Looking more stately nowadays bill!

Imagine if billshortenmp somehow became the Prime Minister of Australia at the last election? As the head the Government he would now be fighting a class action against his own department. AlboMP , your shadow ministers is a cuckoo.

Can relatives of those who committed suicide because of this policy join the action. gordonlegal_au

Where was this Bill Shorten 5 months ago?

Good. robodebt : - is an appalling assault on HumanRights - has contributed to misery, mental illness, self-harm and suicide, - blames the victims of a badly-administered, under-resourced welfare system - doesn't even meet its dodgy policy objectives. Centrelink auspol

Who’s playing the legal fees?

The higher the profile of this abuse the bigger the problem for those enforcing it !!

Thank you billshortenmp and gordonlegal_au

KEEP THE BASTARDS HONEST!

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