Senate committee calls for royal commission into robodebt scandal

Labor-Greens majority committee accuses government of withholding information on scheme which caused significant and widespread harm'

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A Senate committee has called for a royal commission into the robodebt scandal, accusing the government and its departments of the deliberate withholding" of information about the botched scheme.

The Labor-Greens majority committee, chaired by the Greens' Janet Rice, found the Centrelink debt recovery program it said was announced by Scott Morrison in 2015 had indiscriminately targeted some of Australia's most vulnerable people".