The department responsible for robodebt tried to water down independent advice from data experts and asked the government technology agency to enhance the illegal scheme’s “user experience” in less than a week.
According to a damning Royal Commission, the behaviour suggests both a knowledge of fundamental problems with the data underpinning the scheme and a “positive acceptance” of it as debts were being issued.
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