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‘The social engineering of shame’: Rick Morton’s Mean Streak exposes the populism behind the unlawful robodebt scheme

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.

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Debt collectors face calls to return $11.6m retrieved under unlawful robodebt scheme

Figure paid by federal government for private collection services described as ‘shameful’

The Guardian - AU

Minister, officials ignored robodebt deaths and harm

A royal commission has found two government departments failed to properly respond to the deaths of people who had automated debts raised against them.

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When both their sons took their own lives after receiving Robodebt demands, Kath and Jenny came together to seek change

Jenny Miller and Kath Madgwick became household names for those following the fallout from the automated Robodebt scheme. For the first time they talk about the bond they share after both their sons died and their plans to change the stigma around suicide.

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Former top lawyer denies seeking to withhold documents from coroner after robodebt victim’s suicide

Annette Musolino tells inquiry she did not withhold legal advice from her boss, the Department of Human Services secretary

The Guardian - AU

‘Saddest part of my career’: Centrelink employee describes pain of implementing robodebt

Jeannie-Marie Blake says watching the royal commission into the scheme has been ‘triggering’ after giving evidence with striking frankness

The Guardian - AU

Top lawyer admits 'uncertainty' of robodebt legality

A former leading lawyer for the federal government says there was an undesirable level of uncertainty within the department on the legality of robodebt.

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‘Platitudes and false words’: mother of robodebt victim who took own life tells inquiry of government stonewalling

‘It all became very sly. Everyone was lying and covering each other’s backs,’ royal commission hears

The Guardian - AU

Government lawyers were told Robodebt's income-averaging method couldn't be used to calculate welfare debts, royal commission hears

The inquiry hears from a mother whose son took his own life after being targeted with dozens of phone calls, text messages from Centrelink and debt collectors chasing an alleged Robodebt.

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A political obituary for Alan Tudge

In his valedictory speech, the man who presided over one of the most shameful public policy debacles in living memory made no reference to his failings as a minister.

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Whose doing was it?: what we’ve learned from the robodebt royal commission

Some responsibility accepted but also excuses and deflection of blame. And the human cost laid bare of an unfair and unlawful scheme

The Guardian - AU

Christian Porter to face robodebt inquiry after Alan Tudge questioned over department’s response to suicides

Former social services minister due to appear at high-profile royal commission on Thursday

The Guardian - AU

Robodebt failings not his responsibility, Alan Tudge says

Questions regarding how much Alan Tudge knew about the often wild inaccuracies in the robodebt system went unanswered.

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Robodebt royal commission welcomed by mum whose son, alleged to owe $28k, took own life

Jenny Miller has been fighting for a royal commission into the automated debt recovery scheme since 2017, when her 27-year-old son, Rhys Cauzzo, took his own life after receiving relentless calls and letters claiming he owed tens of thousands of dollars.

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