What a mess...who's responsible, and what will the ramifications be to them personally?

Let's put skin in the game here, everybody's skin!

To me, it's more evidence of the war against the poor.

Dan

Governments/government departments, are just no good at anything, simply because it is always other people's money they can afford to be careless with. Until individual public servants are held accountable for their inability - as they are in the private sector - and are required to 'make good' any stuff ups they make, out of their own pockets, nothing will change. We used to have good people in the public service; now we have mainly no hopers who can't get a job anywhere else.

ttbn,
By that logic, corporations would be just no good at anything, as their workers too are always dealing with other people's money (and contrary to your claims, generally don't have to male good the results of their stuffups out of their on pockets).

Anyway, this was the result of political, not bureaucratic, incompetence. The government ordered Centrelink to send out the debt notices without first verifying the debts.

Typical right wing group think! Chase pennies as billions are rorted via tax evasion and sharp practice!

This ballistic bureauocratic balls up, typical of their particular myopic focus!

Gotta chase single mums/cripples etc, for a few dollars as billionaires and multinationals rip annual billions from internal revenue with untroubled impunity.
Alan B.

I can't help thinking how much of Robo-Debt was actually sabotaged by those bureaucrats & public servants who wanted it to be a failure to assist their political ambitions whilst profiting from the losses they incurred for those for whom the system was designed to help !

I wonder how any rational thinking poster can possibly imagine just how you'd sabotage something that was illegal with conception?

All you'd need would be to blow the whistle!

Possibly as you watched annual billions being rorted from legal internal revenue?

As myopically focused idealogues chase pennies as a classic distraction that the gormless can transfer their rapt attention to?

One can only hope the targets of this financial injustice are driven to crime or ignoring social distancing in an effort to earn a buck, from dope pushing, shop lifting, enforced sexual slavery perhaps? Given the actual alternative financial options available for the targeted demographic! Zip, zero, ziltch?
Alan B.