Firstly, Robodebt was set up and run by the dept of Government services which did not fall under Morrison as SR and the village idiot claim.

Secondly, the use of algorithms to identify potential fraud or tax evasion is widely used by ATO and services to identify potential culprits. That 2.1bn of potential debt was identified showed that it was potentially very successful.

The issue is what happened after that. The Public service administered this and they wrongly made the assumption that everyone that was flagged was guilty and insisted on immediate repayment with harsh penalties if this was not done.

If this was done properly, the innocent could have had this fairly reviewed, the guilty would have been punished, and future rooting of the system could have been prevented.

However, all the above is not relevant to the point I was making i.e. None of this is hidden or unavailable to any inquiry. An RC is yet another display of virtue signalling.

Morrison introduces his new Robodebt collector to Cabinet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TstteJ1eIZg

It's good to see their ill-thought-out policies and flawed narratives crumble over time, and in hindsight.
- Incompetent fools.

Shadowminister,

What on earth are you talking about. Morrison was the minister for Social Services in 2015 when this was conceived and ultimately initiated.

I can't quite decide what is the motivation behind these various 'inquiries' into the previous government. Is it that the ALP remains so traumatised by Morison following his winning the unwinnable election (2019) that they are determined to bury his political corpse so deep that a revival is impossible?

Or is it that the government are well aware of the economic tsunami headed its way and want to get some runs on the board while the getting is good?

Or is it just pay-back for the pink batt and building union inquisitions that their predecessors unleashed?

One thing we can be sure of...its got nothing to do with good governance or uniting the country.

It remains fascinating that those who always allow themselves to be sucked in by these beat-ups have allowed themselves to be stirred up by the double ministry hysteria.
What Morrison did was certainly unusual and is probably now regretted. This was a time when most of the country were deranged by covid hysteria and ill-thought-out decisions abounded. But in the end it had precisely zero affect on the country, decision making and policy.
The notion that we need to know which minister made which decision is rubbish. Ministers implement government policy and it is the government that wears the praise or odium of each policy. And if there was a time when a minister was held responsible for a policy that was overruled by a second minister, it was always open to them to make that fact known. The claim that responsibility was compromised is merely an assertion to give the beat-up a veneer of sense.

As well as this example of gross maladministration I would also welcome an investigation into the Federal COVID response in the hope that we would perform better next time.

It was the State Premiers who kept the lid on the spread until planned vaccination levels could be reached in spite of the constant needling from Morrison & Co and certain parts of the media. However many could see what was really happening and later voted accordingly in respective State elections.

It was Morrison who threatened to withdraw funding from Aged Care homes from the beginning and later insisted schools were "safe" in spite of evidence to the contrary and then resisted recommended Jobkeeper and other measures until he no longer had any choice - yet (like Trump) later went on to claim all credit for saving lives while giving none to those who really did "the heavy lifting."

Robodebt, selling non-existent water-buybacks, vaccine supplies and quarantine, submarine contracts and provoking a Trade war were just a handful of examples from the last three years alone. From the six weeks of constant complaining about Albanese's pre-election "gaffe", imagine the screeching and foaming at the mouth if Labor did just of one of those things in Government.

Let's find out exactly what went wrong with Robodebt and let the chips fall where they may. It's the least that can be done for its many victims.