Dear mhaze,

Well that is bloody pathetic as usual.

This wasn't a cock up at all. It was a punitive act by an uncaring political party from your side of politics.

There were people in the public service who tried to take a stand but they were shifted sideways.

http://twitter.com/strangerous10/status/1615977367746543617?s=20&t=SFmVnp0NsgoyiOodtXl_fg

It is the politicisation of the public service which has allowed this to happen. Once again it is the destructive nature of your side of politics who scream for "smaller government' which has so eroded the public service and the once frank and fearless advice they delivered.

The very fact you want to shift the blame on to them rather than your side of politics is telling.

What is also telling is your flippancy about what this poor woman had to go through.

Your side of politics raise the 4 deaths said to have been caused by the so called pink batts scheme. The toll of Robodebt is thought to be in their thousands.

Zip from you lot though.

Disgraceful.

'Robodebt' was not a cock-up, it was a deliberate political act by philosophically driven conservative politicians, administered by a politicised public service to extract revenge on the "low lives of society in the social order", for their well known propensity to lie, cheat and steal from the "good folk of society"....The 'Dole Bludger Syndrome' perpetuated by the likes of Morrison and other conservatives. Starting from the position of, "guilty as charged", it was a natural progression to impose sentence, in this case an unjust and undeserved debt.

Talking to some in a precarious position to begin with, I can understand how something like 'Robodebt' would push them over the edge. I'm sure some on this Forum have no idea of the hardship and trauma some people are suffering in their lives.

You keep on going on about 'my side' of politics. I don't know how many times I need to say it but the previous government wasn't 'my side'. Indeed I haven't voted Liberal now for a decade.

'My side' of politics wouldn't have implemented the robodebt scheme because 'my side' is inherently distrustful of the ability of government to achieve anything of any real complexity. 'My side' of politics, whatismore, would ensure that government was held responsible for the cock-ups, and not just the politicians but public servants who designed and implemented these policies.

You can take it to the bank that no one is going to pay a price for this in the same way as no one paid a price for the Pink Batts screw-up. If this thing (Robodebt) had been done by a private company, we wouldn't be holding toothless inquiries into what had happened, we'd be building gallows and SR's and Paul's of this world would be cheering it on. Consequently, you would not find private industry making these types of screw-ups.

So, no, 'my side' pf politics didn't do this. The politics of ever bigger government as espoused by the Lib/Lab duopoly did this, and they'll do it again because, for them, the answer to every problem is government.

Governments screw-up and the bigger the government the bigger the screw-ups and the more they will be hidden - eg the vaccines. Pink batts, robodebt, the never-ending submarine sagas, census screw-ups, close-the-gap failures, recent revelations about declining education outcomes....the default government position is failure.

The cause of the screw-ups is big government and the solution is smaller government. That is 'my side' of politics and no major party in Australia currently represents that 'side'.

Still, I wonder why we are spending all this money on a RC when SR/Paul seemed to have already worked out what the cause of the problem was = people they don't like.

mhaze

Who would 'side' with any of the drips in Canberra these days? They are as much use as the narcissists and energy vampires here who are just ideologues, mistaking their ideology for reality. They see what they want to see, and find what they want to find. And, how can you possibly argue with someone who comes up with 'heart rendering' instead of 'heart rending'.

What I find fascinating is that the word "woke" has become a substitute for incisive commentary for the far-right.

Even respected journos luxuriating at that end of the spectrum lazily spatter their pages with woke this, woke that.

The only disappointment is that their previously preferred trope of "virtue signalling" seems to have been usurped by "woke".

Fun times!

Dear Poirot - Welcome back!

Good to see you posting again!