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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality editor

Former chief counsel did ‘nothing’ to address legal doubts over robodebt, royal commission hears

The former chief counsel at the Department of Human Services has been told at a royal commission that she and her team did “nothing” to address legal doubts over the robodebt scheme despite several warnings.

The commission is investigating why and how the unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in 2015 and ran until November 2019, ending in a $1.8bn settlement with hundreds of thousands of victims.

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