Shorten furious over robodebt department head’s attempt to position herself as ‘scapegoat’

Kathryn Campbell defends her role in unlawful scheme and rejects claim she came up with program with former prime minister Scott Morrison

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Bill Shorten has launched an excoriating attack of former public servant Kathryn Campbell after she claimed she was unfairly blamed in the robodebt scandal and defended her decisions around the scheme.

Robodebt was a shocking betrayal and failure of empathy towards vulnerable people who needed support from the government," Shorten said on Saturday.

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