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Scott Morrison's evidence to the Robodebt inquiry becomes fiery as Commissioner Catherine Holmes asks the former prime minister if he understands parliamentary privilege.

Colleen Taylor tells royal commission that staff were told ‘not to interrogate’ injustices facing welfare recipients

Andrew Whitecross says he fiercely criticised the proposal and questioned its legality in the scheme’s initial plan

Andrew Whitecross, then an employee at the Department of Human Services, agrees the policy which became Robodebt was a "radical departure" from compliance at the time.

Bureaucrats from March 2015 insisted in documents that scheme would ‘not change’ how welfare overpayments were calculated, inquiry hears

Security of the senior royals is a top priority on any overseas trip

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 first two weeks of hearings into the unlawful welfare scheme sought to answer a central question: how could this happen?

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