Malcolm Turnbull has told a royal commission that he didn’t turn his mind to the legality of the robodebt scheme while he was prime minister, saying it never occurred to him it was “unauthorised”.
The commission is investigating why and how the Coalition’s unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in July 2015 and ran until November 2019, ending in a $1.8bn settlement with hundreds of thousands of victims.
