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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Scott Morrison accuses Labor of campaign of ‘political lynching’ against him on robodebt

Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison offered a fresh defence of his role in the robodebt controversy in parliament on Monday. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Scott Morrison has accused the robodebt royal commission of “unfairly and retroactively” applying a consensus the debt recovery program was unlawful, while telling parliament Labor was pursuing a campaign of “political lynching” against him.

On Monday the former prime minister made a personal statement to a near empty lower house of parliament rejecting the commission’s central findings as “unfounded and wrong”.

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