The robodebt scheme was passed like a hot potato up the line of Coalition ministers – but who will be held responsible?

The royal commission into robodebt found that Scott Morrison had ‘allowed cabinet to be misled’. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

The robodebt royal commission report is an indictment on the way Australia was governed, but who commissioner Catherine Holmes holds most to blame for the unlawful scheme is slightly obscured by her deference to due process.

Holmes chose to make the findings and 57 recommendations public while sealing the referrals for potential civil action and criminal prosecutions in a confidential chapter.