Good afternoon. The federal government has agreed to pay $475m in additional compensation to roughly 450,000 victims of the robodebt scandal, in the largest class action settlement in Australian history.
The government announced on Thursday it had agreed to settle Knox v the commonwealth – an appeal from the original 2020 robodebt class action settlement. The appeal was launched last year after a royal commission exposed fresh evidence that commonwealth officials who ran the debt-raising scheme knew it was unlawful but proceeded anyway.
