Hello and welcome to the new Afternoon Update. I’m Antoun Issa, the newsletters editor at Guardian Australia, and I’ll be keeping you up to speed with the day’s news every weekday.
To get straight into the news, the royal commission into the robodebt scandal is already unearthing important details only one day into its inquiry. The revelation? That a government department was aware of legal concerns around the scheme way back in 2014 – almost five years before the Coalition government deemed it unlawful. The botched Centrelink scheme saw hundreds of thousands of people issued unlawful social security debts.
