When the Albanese Government announced a Royal Commission into Robodebt, Deb Smith put the pieces together with a series of reports as the Royal Commission progresses, including an analysis of the history of the data matching program which compares tax data against social security records, its corruption by the "robodebt" policy and reports on the hearings, from a union perspective. What do we already know about what went wrong and what has the Royal Commission found?
This episode includes:

testimony from a victim of Robodebt, Sandra Bevan, 
a frontline Centrelink worker who tried to raise the alarm, Colleen Taylor,
Community and Public Sector union representatives of Centrelink workers, Melissa Donnelly and Lisa Newman
former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison.

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This episode was broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 23rd December 2022.
You can also listen to "The Robodebt Fiasco - Part 1", "The Robodebt Fiasco Part 2" , "The Robodebt Fiasco Part 3" or the complete collection "The Robodebt Fiasco - All Episodes"
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