If ever there was an instance of such a hideous failing in government policy and its cowardly implementation by the public service, Australia’s cruel, inept and vicious Robodebt program would have to ...

A watchdog's probe into officials involved in the robodebt scheme found two people carried out corrupt conduct, but it cleared ex-prime minister Scott Morrison. Two people involved in the former ...

Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Associate Professor of journalism Dr. Caroline Fisher talk about this week in politics. They discuss the government’s announcement of a ...

In a revealing declaration, former federal Government Services Minister Stuart Robert last week bluntly told a royal commission that he had deliberately misled the public on the legality and human ...

More than a decade after Australia’s notorious Robodebt regime was launched in 2015—causing immense suffering to about 450,000 welfare recipients by falsely accusing them of owing the government huge ...

The scheme, engineered to claw back funds supposedly overpaid to welfare recipients, was broken and cruel from the start. Despite a royal commission’s findings, its political backers are unlikely to ...

Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes has referred multiple individuals involved with the illegal scheme for civil and criminal prosecutions and other actions. But the names remain secret. They ...

Scott Morrison has been cleared by a probe into the Robodebt scandal, with two officials found to have engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”. The National Anti-Corruption Commissioner found Mark ...

The National Anti-Corruption Commissioner found Mark Withnell intentionally misled officers of the Department of Social Services during the preparation of a Cabinet submission in 2015, according to ...