When the Albanese Government announced a Royal Commission into Robodebt, Deb Smith put the pieces together with this analysis of the history of the data matching program which compares tax data against social security records, and its corruption by the "robodebt" policy. What do we already know about what went wrong and what has the Royal Commission found?
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This episode was broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 9th  September 2022.
You can also listen to "The Robodebt Fiasco - Part 2" , "The Robodebt Fiasco - Part 3", or the complete collection "The Robodebt Fiasco - All Episodes"

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