A judge has approved a $1.2 billion settlement between robodebt victims and the federal government while blasting the scheme for being a"shameful chapter" in public administration.
However, Justice Murphy was not convinced the federal government knew the robodebt scheme was unlawful from the start. The automated matching of tax and Centrelink data to raise debts against welfare recipients the government claimed to have overpaid was ruled unlawful in 2019.Jennifer Miller in May said robodebt played a"very prominent" role in her son Rhys Cauzzo taking his own life about four years ago after he was pursued by Centrelink and debt collectors.
He also raised concerns the settlement offered by the Commonwealth allowed politicians to avoid admitting publicly that robodebt was unlawful.
This is on the libs and on Morrison in particular
SBS This is beyond “shameful”. The ScottMorrisonMP government knew robodebt was illegal but continued harassing people, some into suicide, for often non-existent debt, all the while trying to keep it out of the courts which would have confirmed the illegality. Some Christian, eh?
Why is Morrison still in government
There needs to be a full investigation into Centrelink now.
It should be one point two trillion, and the federal liberal party should be the entity paying up.
It doesn't end there, the morrison-liberal government is now going after Medicare! This mob just don't give up on making its citizens poorer & more disenfranchised
Shameful is one word to describe this so-called government that cannot govern but can enact the worst abuses of power.
APS has worst recruited.Write 1500 words CV+ interview+ disappear+Takes so much time to reply that we forget about job. NO Technical jobs. Seems all outsourced. All jobs to Canberra/Sydney. Literally no Telecom jobs in Melbourne. Tiresome pricess APS_Commission PublicServiceAU
Pretty much the last eight years really.
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