Four current or former public servants have breached the Australian Public Service code of conduct in relation to the Robodebt scheme, according to the preliminary findings of an independent investigation. Last year, the Australian Public Service Commission launched an investigation into 16 public servants who were identified by the royal commission into the unlawful debt recovery program as being involved …
A leaflet appeared in letterboxes in suburban Melbourne in recent days. In her report about Robodebt, Commissioner Catherine Holmes said: "Anti-welfare rhetoric is easy populism, useful for campaign purposes." The same downward envy Before the politics of attacking welfare bludgers that lay behind the way the Coalition government prosecuted its Robodebt scheme, there was the earlier attack on single mothers …