A former Department of Social Services official has told a royal commission she acted as “quickly” as possible after she was accused of sitting on damning legal advice on the robodebt scheme for months before moving to a more senior job.
On Friday, the robodebt royal commission heard about a dispute between Allyson Essex, an acting group manager at the Department of Social Services, and her subordinate Kristin Lumley over a top law firm’s warning the scheme was unlawful.
