Dear Armchair Critic,

And if we ever have a privatisation of a government monopoly that has worked we can do the same.

Dear mhaze,

You have a government who is avowedly fixated on being punitive toward the unemployed, who has gone hardarsed and well over the top on debt recovery very much against the advice of the department and the sector, yet instead of going after the pollies like you have after Rudd you want to go after department heads?

How does that work? Is your side of politics immune from being held to account?

mhaze,

So, if the Government has failed with this scheme
and a Royal Commission will not achieve anything as
you claim - shouldn't the Government just suspend it?

The legal basis of the scheme is also being
questioned and there's a class action on the books.
This could be a test case.

Not looking good for the Government.

Behind this and a lot of government policy is its wish to convince some voters the world is flat
Every move they make in this area is to tell that type of voter these folk are thieves
And cashless card is another one

a government who is avowedly fixated on being punitive toward the unemployed,
SteeleRedux,
you conveniently left out "the deliberately unemployed".

" Is your side of politics immune from being held to account?"
Oh so you just want to punish the 'other' side. Thought so.





Foxy wrote: "shouldn't the Government just suspend it?"

Yes. Its a failed scheme implemented by people and systems that don't have the wherewithal to run anything more complex than a chook raffle.

So yes, cancel it. It'd set a nice precedent. Cancel all government schemes that fail to do what they were set up to do....

* Federal Education Dept - with educations results going backwards for the past decade or three, they have obviously failed...GONE

* Dept of Abbariginal Affairs - there's been no advance the 'closing the gap' mantra forever so...GONE.

* Women's Affairs....GONE

* That part of Treasury that forecasts the economy....GONE

* NBN...GONE

* Dept of the Arts....well you know.

We'd erase the nation debt within the life of this parliament.

And another one.

"A 19-year-old single mother experiencing an arc of issues living below the poverty line, alone with a bub, without the support of the biological father, struggling day to day then receives a Robodebt around $9000. This is not how it should be.

She sought assistance from the community shire office and was told they could not help. She visited the office a number of times distressed about the unaffordable debt she did not understand how she could owe this amount. This is not how it should be.

Despite an accumulation of stressors, isolation, the Robodebt indisputably contributed to her negative self, to it all being too much, tipping her."

http://thestringer.com.au/robodebt-suicide-19-year-old-mum-13001#.XYf5dCgzbIU