A former top departmental lawyer claims Stuart Robert told him an “opinion is just an opinion” when the minister was told about the legal “challenges” with the robodebt scheme, a royal commission has heard.
Timothy Ffrench, who was chief counsel at the Department of Human Services, now called Services Australia, also claimed its former boss Kathryn Campbell was partly to blame for a culture that meant the robodebt scheme’s legality was not checked earlier.
