I don’t understand Dutton’s claim that the government and/or Shorten is “politicizing” the robodebt RC report.
Is it not inherently political?
Is it not inherently political?
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The Robodebt Royal Commission
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One of the enablers Neil Mitchell of course today trying to deflect to Labor
Neil Mitchell is just a sour campaigner because he is politically irrelevant.
If the media did their job properly and were not mostly entirely partisan then they would not even be reporting it.
The Liberals are flooding the zone with bullshit as usual and the media are gleefully obliging
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The reason we have shit politics is because we have shit media…
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I will happily say that without fail, every single person I dealt with in person at Centrelink was courteous, understanding, and empathetic. They did everything they could to help, but were hamstrung by the inhumane and degrading system they have to work under.
In stark contrast to the disgusting and shameful "job service providers" whose contracts need to be ripped up immediately.
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I think Robodebt is the ultimate symbol of the mean-spiritedness with which the Coalition and its media partners like to govern. Can you get any more mean-spirited than pursuing Australia's poorest in a scheme you know is illegal, while handing out many times that money to the wealthy?
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Dutton ... Says innocent till proven guilty
Robo-debt ... your guilty , prove your innocent
Hollow apology you arseh*le .
Robo-debt ... your guilty , prove your innocent
Hollow apology you arseh*le .
I'd double like that if I could. I'm going to pinch it for my signature
Most journalists I’ve met are too lazy to read the RC report and believe that we “the punters” don’t care or are too thick to understand it if they could read it and summarize it for us. The assumption of public stupidity is mostly projection. Smug, condescending arseholes.
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Great article. Every single one of us has to push for change, or else there is nothing to stop another robodebt happening.
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Let’s be clear. Robodebt was ended by welfare recipients with their suffering | Darren O'Donovan
After the shameful revelations from the royal commission, we have to change the way we talk about social security
The senior public service come out of this diminished
They were corrupted by the LNP. Simple as that. They need to be cut out of the 'service'.
Yet Scumo & the Mad Monk will go to church & sing their little rings off this morning like nothings happened.
Sanctimonious. inhuman, sociopathic, bastids.
Then we have Paine, Tudge & all the other antisocial slime bags.
Sickening.
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Sadly not. Senior public servants who do whatever horrible shit the minister wants without leaving a paper trail are a feature, not a bug. Popular in a government of either colour. The main stars of this one will get the arse but the less prominent toadies will live on.
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And from my experience, what a fair % of Labor Ministers expect.
The appointment of politically sympathetic, if not aligned, Departmental heads at Federal and State lvel has been a thing for decades and not just restricted to one side of politics.
We have every right to be shocked, but not surprised, of the consequences of the ongoing erosion of the independence of the public service.
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There is some irony, amid calls that Kathryn Campbell should resign from the APS after helping design a policy that killed
poor and vulnerable people whilst Secretary of Human Services and letting Robodebt rip for nearly 5 years.
She was then moved sideways to a job with AUKUS helping to design a policy that will also probably kill people.
No doubt her background in the Army Reserve was seen relevant for her new gig as well as her previous APS role.
poor and vulnerable people whilst Secretary of Human Services and letting Robodebt rip for nearly 5 years.
She was then moved sideways to a job with AUKUS helping to design a policy that will also probably kill people.
No doubt her background in the Army Reserve was seen relevant for her new gig as well as her previous APS role.
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Campbell went on leave from her AUKUS role last week and before the Royal Commission Report came out.
Due process needs to work its course but would be surprised if she returned other than to clear out her desk.
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Passing for Human in a Post-Robodebt World
The greatest strength of humanity is its Achilles heel. Unlike other animals, humans have the ability to imagine what it might be like to be somebody else—or rather, how it might feel to be in the …
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AFR's Phil Coorey trying to reinvent himself on Insiders this morning.
Remember all those scathing articles he did on the RoboDebt Scheme before the Royal Commission? Nope neither do I.
Remember all those scathing articles he did on the RoboDebt Scheme before the Royal Commission? Nope neither do I.
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Pretty sure the boss has said they won't be covering issues that have already been "dealt with".
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I don't think Robodebt needs to go to the NACC - they have enough to do.
It's had a thorough going over by a RC and its findings have been laid out for all to see.
It's recommendations for dealing with those responsible have been fired off to those whose job it is to do that.
The NACC and a RC have are quite similar in their role and powers. They both don't have the power to prosecute.
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