AUSTRALIAN welfare costs us $227 billion a year (34 per cent of the budget) and at any time, about $3.5 billion is owed to the government for fraud and non-compliance. Who should pay for that?
A lot is being said about the robodebt debacle as it harshly affected many innocent people ("Robodebt lesson in common decency", Editorial 10/7); "Morrison has to live with impact", Herald 10/7). There's been a gratuitous kick to the former PM Morrison, pictured, by Education Minister Jason Clare and critical Short Takes from Michael Jameson, Daryl Stevenson and John Arnold (Letters, 11/7), but we should also give credit where it's due.
