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Manager of opposition business seeks to amend Labor’s robodebt motion, limiting apology to “Australians who received unlawful debt notices”
Paul Fletcher also wants credit for the Morrison government having “cancelled the program and it ensured that those affected received a refund or had their debts zeroed, and [to note] that to date 99% of refunds have been issued”.
Fletcher told the House:
I’d like to start by expressing the opposition’s regret and extend our apology to Australians who received unlawful debt notices … To those Australians I simply say: ‘We are sorry.’ The apology I’ve repeated today is of course consistent with the apology of the then Morrison government in 2020. When the Coalition government became aware of the problems, we cancelled the program and ensured that those affected received a refund or had their debts cancelled.”
But, as Bill Shorten noted in reply, the government had many warnings the scheme was not lawful – including many, many losses in the administrative appeals tribunal, where debts were routinely erased.
Updated at 22.45 EDT16m ago22.32 EDT
It is worth mentioning that Centrelink debt collection continues under this government. Debts are not raised through an automated process bereft of humans and they are considered lawful, but there are still thousands of people given debt notices.
Data on fraud and corruption investigations by Services Australia, and a breakdown of external cases by category (Centrelink, Medicare etc.) https://t.co/RBXmGcdk5thttps://t.co/Zq2fGttRwb pic.twitter.com/tmtLPAutPK
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20m ago22.28 EDT
House debates Bill Shorten motion on robodebt
The House of Representatives is debating a motion from Bill Shorten that:
it accepts the findings of the robodebt royal commission “regarding the former ministers involved in…
2023-08-09 21:33:08
Article from www.theguardian.com
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