I immediately saw robodebt for what the royal commission eventually concluded it to be: unlawful and deeply unethical This is an extract of evidence given to the Senate Legal and Constitutional ...

Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

Cherie Burdett estimates that more than 500 people attended her son Tory's funeral. The 29-year-old was "six-foot tall, bald, covered in tattoos and the most lovable ...

The news of the largest-ever class action settlement in Australian history seems, in many ways, like the only fitting bookend to the awful ordeal of Robodebt. Some A$548 million (including legal and ...

The class action was an appeal to the original suit settled in 2020 where the former Coalition government forked out $1.8bn wiping wrongful debts and issuing refunds. It was the product of a royal ...

The federal government will pay an extra $475m in compensation to Robodebt victims after Labor settled a historic class action. Picture: Mark Brake / NewsWire The Commonwealth will pay an extra $475m ...

The federal government has agreed to pay $475 million in compensation to the victims of the Coalition government's Robodebt scandal. Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said if approved by the Federal ...