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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Basford Canales and Christopher Knaus

‘Zero repercussions’: victims of robodebt ‘embarrassed’ to have believed justice would be done

Michael Griffin in 2023, sitting on the front porch of a house
‘This is hardly the justice we were promised,’ says Michael Griffin, a victim of the unlawful robodebt scheme. Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian

Victims of the unlawful robodebt program say they feel “embarrassed” to have believed justice would be delivered after a royal commission into the scheme, suggesting “they could put all this into a Monty Python movie”.

Twelve officials, including former department heads Kathryn Campbell and Renée Leon, breached the public service code of conduct 97 times during their involvement in robodebt, an Australian Public Service Commission taskforce found on Friday.

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