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The Robodebt royal commission hears startling evidence with senior bureaucrats admitting they didn't follow legal advice, were too busy to raise concerns or didn't think it was their responsibility. Here's how the two weeks of hearings wrapped up.

The top bureaucrat at the department responsible for the unlawful Robodebt scheme tells the royal commission it was a "significant failure of public administration".

First day of royal commission hearings told social services department did not seek ‘authoritative’ legal advice until four years after scheme was introduced

The warning was revealed in the first day of the royal commission hearings being held into the controversial scheme, which ran from 2016 to 2019 and involved recovering debts from welfare recipients.

Royal commissioner says inquiry’s focus will be on those who had or should have had oversight over the automated debt recovery scheme