Legal advice showed the robodebt scheme needed changes to proceed. An inquiry has heard it wasn't passed on

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The royal commission has heard a government department failed to relay information about the unlawfulness of the robodebt income averaging calculation.

"It was as definitive as I've ever seen. The proposal needed to change substantially in order to proceed," Cameron Brown said.

The DHS sought legal consultation on three separate occasions in 2015, but its requests never explicitly questioned the lawfulness of income averaging. The decisiveness of the DSS's internal legal advice, and government checks and balances, should have ended the robodebt proposal there and then, he said.

 

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This is a claim, not yet proven. Smarten up SBS.

So devastating as it caused much bankruptcy, financial embarrassment and deaths!!! It was an illegal scheme that was enforced on the most vulnerable people by the most corrupt Government this country has ever seen. But will the criminal actions of LNP individuals see them in jail

And no one is surprised bc their underlying beliefs are that welfare recipients are cheats

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