The unlawful robodebt scheme was rushed into operation with “little interest” in its legal basis and then covered up with “dishonesty and collusion”, a landmark Royal Commission has found.
According to the report, Coalition ministers misrepresented information to support the scheme, misled the family of a man who committed suicide after receiving a debt notice, and could not have been “rationally satisfied” of the scheme’s legality.
Former Prime minister Scott Morrison presented “untrue” evidence to the commission.
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