Labor pledges royal commission into ‘human tragedy’ of robodebt if elected
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#5YQDV)
Anthony Albanese vows to find those responsible for the scheme as Morrison says the problem has been addressed'
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Labor has promised to launch a royal commission into the discredited robodebt scheme if it wins government.
The automated matching of tax and Centrelink data to raise debts against welfare recipients for money the Coalition government claimed to have overpaid ran between 2015 and November 2019, and saw the government unlawfully raise $1.76bn in debts against 443,000 people.
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