Only six months after losing the highest office in the land, Scott Morrison has been upbraided for his poor listening skills as the Robodebt royal commission centred on the bigger question of whether he’d been paying attention in office.
The former prime minister is at the centre of the inquiry into the illegal scheme, which sought to reclaim money owed from those on welfare payments but consistently got it wrong and unlawfully seized $750 million from clients’ bank accounts with sometimes disastrous results.
