‘Platitudes and false words’: mother of robodebt victim who took own life tells inquiry of government stonewalling
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from World news | The Guardian on (#6919S)
It all became very sly. Everyone was lying and covering each other's backs,' royal commission hears
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The mother of a robodebt victim who took his own life has told a royal commission that she was stonewalled by the former Coalition government while she sought answers about her son's welfare debts for more than five years.
The commission is investigating why and how the unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in 2015 and ran until November 2019, ending in a $1.8bn settlement with hundreds of thousands of victims.
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