Robodebt

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled the terms of reference and the commissioner who will oversee the inquiry. Former Queensland Supreme Court Justice ...

"The royal commission is going to lead to a real change in our human services sector." "The royal commission will examine the establishment of the scheme, who was responsible for it and why it was necessary, how concerns were handled, how the scheme affected individuals and the financial costs to government, and measures to prevent this ever happening again," he said. Scott Morrison, who was social services minister when the scheme was established, has said the problem was dealt with by his government when it was scrapped in 2020. "The [former] government has never satisfactorily explained how this monster scheme got away from the system and got a life of its own," he said. - The royal commission will look into the establishment of the scheme, who was responsible, complaints handling, costs and measure to prevent it happening again The new federal government has officially called a royal commission into the former government's unlawful debt recovery scheme known as "Robodebt".

The Albanese Government says a Royal Commission aims to get to the bottom of how the Coalition's illegal welfare debt recovery scheme was set up, ...

Please click below to help InDaily continue to uncover the facts. And that’s why we need to get to the heart of why this occurred.” Your contribution goes directly to helping our journalists uncover the facts. The Federal Court judge, Justice Murphy, said that the senior public servants and responsible ministers should have known, but didn’t know.” The scheme was found to have wrongly recovered more than $750 million from 381,000 people. The former government at the time raised more than $1.7 billion from more than 400,000 people.

Former Queensland chief justice in charge. The federal government has announced the details of its promised royal commission into the failed “Robodebt” scheme.

Between 2015 and 2019, Robodebt was estimated to have raised more than $1.7 billion in debts, and in November 2020, the government reached a $1.8 billion Announcing the royal commission, prime minister Anthony Albanese told a media conference that Robodebt "was, of course, the Coalition’s brainchild, a computer program to decide whether somebody owed the government money, rather than a human." The federal government has announced the details of its promised royal commission into the failed “Robodebt” scheme.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the details of a royal commission into the Robodebt scandal, ...

Many had their wages and tax refunds garnisheed to pay off the debts or were chased by debt collectors. But Robodebt's averaging system used to calculate debts was problematic and in some cases inaccurate. Which government ministers knew what and when, as well as what legal advice they received, is expected to form a key part of the planned royal commission. "One thing … that stands out … The coalition government fought and won a battle during the class action not to release the legal advice it received over Robodebt. Robodebt was described by Justice Bernard Murphy - the presiding judge over the class action - as "a shameful chapter" and "massive failure in public administration". - The outcomes of the scheme, including the harm to vulnerable individuals and the total financial cost to government; and When Robodebt was rolled out in 2015 it was hailed by the government as a key tool to be used in tracking down welfare fraudsters. "It was unlawful, there was no legal power to do what they were doing, to take the humans out of the system, to rehearse the onus of proof. A key line of inquiry will be what legal advice the coalition government received over the scheme and when. The inquiry will probe the implementation of the disastrous scheme by the former coalition government and how it was allowed to continue for more than four years.

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But Santos has argued the traditional owners were not relevant people and therefore the company did not need to consult with them. It’s important, however, that the royal commission also examines the structural factors that continue to exist in our broken social security system. We are pleased the Labor government is acting on this promise for a royal commission … The opportunity to properly examine their involvement was denied by the Coalition while it was in power, which sought to sweep the truth about robodebt under the rug. At this royal commission, decision makers will need to explain why they dismissed almost every piece of feedback and advice. The voices of the people who went through the ordeals is going to be paramount. He’s explained it, he’s apologised for it, and the question now is how you make sure it doesn’t happen again, which is a pretty simple process in terms of requiring prime ministers to declare the acting arrangements and that would resolve the matter. It is absolutely critical, in a time of energy shortages and global instability, that Australia secures its domestic oil and gas supplies. And all that they will end up doing is devaluing the intent of inquiry if it is just going to be one thing after another. Bill Shorten, the minister for government services, has been speaking on the ABC about the robodebt royal commission. The concept of income averaging in Centrelink goes back decades and I was looking today, in 2011, there is a press release from Tanya Plibersek and Bill Shorten talking about the automation of that income averaging process for the purpose of collecting debts in Centrelink. I think we have to be very careful that Labor doesn’t go into a position where every single inquiry is justifiably called a witch-hunt simply because it is one inquiry after another.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rubbished suggestions a royal commission into the former government's failed Robodebt scheme is too costly and is not ...

And that's why we need to get to the heart of why this occurred." It was a massive failure of policy and law," he said. She had attempted suicide. people lost their lives," he said in a press conference. 25+ news channels in 1 place. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hit back at suggestions a royal commission into the failed Robodebt scheme is a waste of money and pointed to the human cost the failed scheme had inflicted on hundreds of thousands of Australians.

The scheme, implemented by the former Coalition government, aggressively pursued tens of thousands of Australians for debts they did not owe. Advertisement.

More information and support with mental health is available atand on 1300 22 4636. “We're six years on from the start of robodebt. “We don't have answers for who knew what, when did they know it? Royal commissions have the power to compel witnesses to testify and the frames of reference suggest that the actions of those in senior roles will be examined. - The establishment, design and implementation of the scheme, including who was responsible The Federal court had found the scheme was unlawful and there was no way for Centrelink to have been satisfied the debts were actually correct.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese today announced the terms of the promised royal commission into the robodebt scandal of the previous government.

Holmes led the 2011 Queensland flood inquiry. “The proceeding has exposed a shameful chapter in the administration of the commonwealth social security system and a massive failure of public administration,” Murphy said at the time in his findings. “The royal commission will examine the establishment of the scheme, who was responsible for why it was necessary, how concerns were handled, how the scheme was financing the government and measures to prevent this from ever happening again,” the prime minister said. Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus described the terms of reference for the commission as broad, with the power to call witnesses, produce documents, and make recommendations “where appropriate”. At a press conference on Thursday morning, Albanese said he was committed to putting the “human” back into “human services” as part of his election commitments. Prime minister Anthony Albanese today announced the terms of the promised royal commission into the robodebt scandal of the previous government.

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A seven-month royal commission will examine who dreamed up the robo-debt scheme and how complaints and concerns were handled.

A seven-month royal commission will examine who dreamed up the robo-debt scheme and how complaints and concerns were handled.

[Katina Curtis](/by/katina-curtis-p4yw01)is a political reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House in Canberra.Connect via But, you know, the mental scars are going to be there for life,” she said. She initially thought the phone call was a scam, it was so unexpected and didn’t match up with her earnings. And I just thought, ‘well, I’m not going to ever pay this off’,” she said. [unlawful in 2019](/link/follow-20170101-p53eq2), measured a person’s average income to claim hundreds of millions of dollars from 433,000 Centrelink recipients. [in 2017](https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/centrelink-debt-recovery-drive-has-caused-summer-from-hell-bill-shorten-says-20170108-gtns33.html) when opposition leader, said the inquiry should offer victims of the “untold harm” caused by the scheme some “robo-justice”.

A high-ranking Queensland judge will lead a royal commission into the "cruel" Robodebt system, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

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A royal commission into robodebt will expose the automated cruelty towards vulnerable people that was invented by the Australian government.

But until the hearings it will be difficult to appreciate how many people experienced financial catastrophes for no reason. We look forward to the royal commission exercising its powers to request documents that reveal whether the former government knew the robodebt scheme was lawful.” In the end the government paid out $1.8 billion – a belated gesture that seems to fall somewhere below an acknowledgement. We know 2000 people who came into contact with robodebt died across a two-year period alone. A militant hostility to people who needed welfare was stoked by false claims from Centrelink, and of a latent budget windfall of $3.5 billion untapped in the social services budget. Robodebt was a new model of service delivery that promised to run a rolling estimate of how much money people had coming through the door, so the government could subtract ‘debts’ from their bank accounts.

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New South Wales digital government minister Victor Dominello has asked the state's information and privacy watchdogs to undertake a “scan of the AI and ...

The former federal Coalition government did not respond to the recommendation. He said it likely won’t arrive before he retires from politics early next year, but an AI commissioner is being explored and will be necessary to maintain public trust in government technology. New South Wales digital minister Victor Dominello has asked the state’s information and privacy watchdogs to undertake a “scan of the AI and privacy landscape” in the wake of the robodebt royal commission launch.

The prime minister believes key questions remain unanswered after a $1.8 billion settlement between robodebt victims and the government was reached in 2021.

In 2019, the scheme was axed under the then Government Services Minister Stuart Robert. The government says it will focus on the decision-making of those in "positions of seniority." The royal commission will be tasked with establishing who was responsible for the scheme, what advice was used in its implementation and the complaints handling processes. The royal commission has been given $30 million in funding and will be based in Brisbane. But the Morrison government has never detailed who was accountable for the scheme and which ministers knew of its problems. The automated matching of Australian Taxation Office and Centrelink data to raise debts against welfare recipients for money the Coalition government claimed to have overpaid was ruled unlawful by the Federal Court in 2019.

We welcome further scrutiny of the failed robodebt scheme, with the Australian Government today announcing a royal commission into the automated debt ...

The complexity and confusion of the robodebt processes and the lack of respect afforded to recipients could and should have been avoided. If the government had responded to Tribunal decisions earlier and implemented changes, it could have prevented significant hardship for hundreds of thousands of people who were affected by robodebt after 2017. - A renewed commitment to transparency and effective oversight in government policy design and implementation. - When people exercise their rights to have Centrelink’s decisions reviewed, the subsequent decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal should be heeded and necessary changes flowing from these decisions should be implemented. - Future changes to the social security system should be designed and discussed with service users and stakeholders. Our client, Madeleine Masterton, was the first person in Australia to challenge her robodebt in the Federal Court, and it was the case of our second client, Deanna Amato, that established for the first time that the robodebt scheme was in fact, unlawful.