ANALYSIS: The robo-debt royal commission has provided a rare insiders view of the secretive world of big government, exposing a multiplicity of failures and lessons.
against a cohort that by their very character were unlikely to be working regular hours across a year. Instead they went missing.
The sending of hundred of thousands of these claims spurred several suicides and countless stories of stress, anxiety and heart break as suspects struggled to understand how they had incurred such high debts. All ministers and prime ministers had a consistent defence that it was the bureaucrats who said the scheme was lawful and until 2019 no one told them there were legal doubts about it. Like blind monkeys not one asked for the actual advice that supported the scheme.
Many of the key departmental players have retired or left the public service, meaning they can’t be charged with a code breach.
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