At nearly 500 pages, Rick Morton’s Mean Streak provides a detailed account of the development and collapse of the robodebt scheme, which started in 2014 and is, in some ways, not yet finished.
The book’s primary source is the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, which conducted hearings between October 2022 and March 2023. The printed report, published in July 2023, is nearly 1,000 pages long. There are also four analytical reports and 770 submissions within the commission’s terms of reference.
The final 50 pages of Mean Streak are statements from a number of public servants and politicians mentioned in the book who dispute the findings of the Royal Commission.
