Scott Morrison a ‘bottomless well of self-pity’ with no ‘mercy’ for robodebt’s real victims, Bill Shorten says

Minister for government services says real victims are all those Australians who lost trust in government' due to scheme

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Bill Shorten has accused Scott Morrison of being a bottomless well of self-pity" with not a drop of mercy for all of the real victims of robodebt".

That outburst in question time followed the former prime minister's defence of his involvement of the scheme in parliament on Monday, claiming Labor was pursuing a campaign of political lynching" against him.