Good afternoon. The much-anticipated findings of the robodebt royal commission were as unforgiving as the scheme it investigated.
“Crude and cruel” were words used to describe the former Coalition government’s automated scheme that reversed the onus on welfare recipients to prove they did not owe a debt. Some took their own lives while being pursued by Centrelink. The report was particularly scathing of former ministers Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert and the top public servant in charge of the scheme, Kathryn Campbell.
