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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former secretary Kathryn Campbell and former prime minister Scott Morrison did not engage in corrupt conduct in relation to the unlawful robodebt scheme, a long-awaited report has found.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today will be a moment of truth for hundreds of thousands of Australians and for what the federal court has condemned as a “shameful chapter” in Australian public administration. This morning, the ...

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 ...

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 ...