Very welcome news that the Labor Government has announced a Royal Commission into the blighted, destructive and discredited Robodebt saga.

Costing numerous quite innocent people their lives it really needs a through investigation and to tease out who was responsible for such a pathetic policy initiative.

What a surprise, Labor hasn't even managed a few months without a royal commission.

That no crime was committed and all the information is available in government records makes this another opportunity for virtue signalling and photo ops. That robodebt made a few mistakes is true, but it also recovered a lot of falsely claimed money.

Something else to take the electorates' mind off the lack of anything coming from the Albanese regime. The electorate showed what it thought of the things the Coalition did, and they acted accordingly (still more primary votes going to them than Labor, though).

'Pathetic' is the only word that describes Albowhine's mewling about a vanquished government that looks like staying vanquished for some time, even with the Dad and Dave show now in charge.

Shadowminister,

Usual bulldust from you.

“Services Australia announced in September 2019 that expenditure on the Robodebt program was A$606 million while recouping A$785 million.”

Wikipedia

Turned out most of if was incorrectly recovered.

“A total of $751 million was wrongly recovered from 381,000 people. A $1.8 billion settlement was ordered last year for people who were wrongly pursued, and government ministers were lambasted by Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy over the "massive failure".”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-25/robodebt-royal-commission-to-probe-unlawful-debt-collection/101357198

A massive failure yet you are sitting there defending it?

Give it a miss mate, you have no idea.

Besides which this was an election promise from the Labor Government and they are rightly fulfilling it..

Given their obsessing over what the previous government did, pushing their apartheid system, and working out how on earth they will achieve 43% reduction in emissions without bringing the country to a grinding halt, the Socialists are not going to achieve much over the next three years except poverty and chaos.

SR,

Looks like you cocked it up again.

From the Guardian:

"Since 2015, a total of $2.1bn is estimated to have been raised through the income compliance – or robodebt – program, including about 200,000 debts the government still considers legal and which it is not proposing to refund."

The problem is not with the algorithm that helped locate welfare cheat but the aggressive nature of the ATO which treats all tax queries with the assumption of guilt and has been brought up many times in many different instances under both governments.

The problem with Albozo's royal commission is that all of this is well documented and unless the ATO has shredded the documents there is little to nothing more that a RC can achieve more than a non-royal commission can.

However, Labor once again is more than happy to piss money against the wall in the name of virtue signalling.