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 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian government said on Thursday it had agreed to pay a further A$475 million ($308.66 million) in compensation to victims of an illegal welfare debt recovery programme, ...

In 2019, Sandra Bevan received multiple letters and calls from Centrelink saying she had Robodebt, but the amount changed with every letter. Credit: Simon Morris. 'The People vs Robodebt' - A powerful ...

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 ...

The federal government has agreed to pay an additional $475 million to Australians affected by the failed Robodebt scheme, taking the total settlement for victims to $548.5 million — the largest class ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal government will pay an extra $475m in compensation to Robodebt victims after Labor settled a historic class action.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

One of the moments that has best demonstrated how the Albanese government has lost its moral bearings is its attempt to roll back freedom of information (FOI) laws on the basis that robodebt showed ...