Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Kathryn Campbell

What we've learnt from nine weeks of Robodebt royal commission hearings

More than 100 witnesses, including two former prime ministers, have faced the Robodebt inquiry and sworn to tell the truth.

ABC News

Robodebt: five years of lies, mistakes and failures that caused a $1.8bn scandal

The royal commission ended on Friday, having heard shocking testimony from officials and politicians, and heart-rending accounts of the impact of the botched scheme

The Guardian - AU

Top bureaucrat Kathryn Campbell ‘did not notice’ major robodebt change

A senior public servant who oversaw the creation and delivery of robodebt says she "did not notice" a major change to a brief.

The New Daily

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Top bureaucrat who oversaw Robodebt rollout says document to ministers was potentially misleading

Kathryn Campbell tells the Robodebt royal commission that a document put to Cabinet failed to mention the need for legislative change.

ABC News

Robodebt: top bureaucrat admits ‘significant oversight’ led to cabinet being misled

Former department head Kathryn Campbell rejects suggestions at inquiry that oversight was deliberate or government ministers had pressured her

The Guardian - AU

Senior public servant faces third robodebt grilling

The former secretary of the departments responsible for running the robodebt scheme will return to the royal commission for a third round of questioning.

AAP

Former top lawyer denies seeking to withhold documents from coroner after robodebt victim’s suicide

Annette Musolino tells inquiry she did not withhold legal advice from her boss, the Department of Human Services secretary

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Stuart Robert said ‘we will double down’ after being advised robodebt was unlawful, inquiry told

Former human services secretary says Coalition minister told her ‘legal advice is just advice’ when briefed on solicitor general’s opinion on scheme’s legality

The Guardian - AU

Former human services minister Stuart Robert vowed to 'double down' after being told Robodebt was illegal, royal commission told

Former top bureaucrat Renee Leon says she was forced to step in and stop the illegal Robodebt scheme because ministers refused.

ABC News

Ex-minister planned agency split despite service impact

Former coalition minister Stuart Robert planned to split a department into four agencies despite advice about the proposal's negative customer service impact.

AAP

Robodebt royal commission: the questions that remain as inquiry’s final public hearings begin

Outlines for the upcoming hearings on the Coalition’s flawed debt recovery scheme show where the investigation may be headed next

The Guardian - AU

Taxpayer-funded review that found 'flaws' in Robodebt scheme was discontinued by Department of Human Services, royal commission told

In a deal worth almost $1 million, the Department of Human Services engaged a consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to review the budget savings program, but then declined to see the end result.

ABC News

Robodebt inquiry hears claim social services official ‘sat on’ damning external legal advice about scheme

Former mid-level official Kristin Lumley says she believed there was ‘inaction’ from her boss and it would ‘end up in federal court’

The Guardian - AU

Department of Social Services legal team was under 'definite pressure' from senior leadership, former in-house lawyer tells Robodebt inquiry

A former in-house legal officer tells the Robodebt royal commission that departmental cultural issues and leadership changes may have impacted the handling of the flawed scheme.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Crusade to ban books in school libraries is as absurd as it is doomed

Conservative culture warriors have declared a new front in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

The Guardian - AU

Senior DHS official ‘very angry’ when colleague suggested robodebt needed ‘major response’, inquiry told

Compliance manager tells royal commission she was ‘unable to influence’ boss away from ‘deliver the numbers’ direction

The Guardian - AU

Centrelink worker recounts ‘callous indifference’ from superiors after raising alarm about robodebt

Colleen Taylor tells royal commission that staff were told ‘not to interrogate’ injustices facing welfare recipients

AAP

Department 'anger' over robodebt scheme

A former Department of Social Services official has denied endorsing the robodebt process in correspondence with the ombudsman's office in 2017.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Senior public servant under scrutiny at robodebt inquiry appointed head of Aukus project office

Former head of Department of Human Services Kathryn Campbell has come under extensive questioning at the royal commission into robodebt

The Guardian - AU

Former social services official told to ‘tone down’ robodebt legal concerns, inquiry hears

Andrew Whitecross says he fiercely criticised the proposal and questioned its legality in the scheme’s initial plan

The Guardian - AU

Robodebt royal commission told ‘misrepresentation may have made its way into the cabinet’

Bureaucrats from March 2015 insisted in documents that scheme would ‘not change’ how welfare overpayments were calculated, inquiry hears

ABC News

Former department head concerned not enough effort made to contact people who had debt notices, Robodebt inquiry hears

The former head of the Department of Human Services is asked if she cared more about people engaging with the welfare system than whether their debts had been inaccurately calculated, the Robodebt inquiry hears.

AAP

Morrison was warned robodebt unlawful

Former prime minister Scott Morrison was warned the robodebt scheme would require law changes, but it was implemented anyway without any legislative tweaks.

AAP

Robodebt officials 'co-wrote' vital report

Human Services department officials had the opportunity to contribute to a Commonwealth Ombudsman report

The Guardian - AU

‘You are being misled’: the Centrelink worker who tried to stop robodebt as it started

Exclusive: As the disastrous program gathered pace, Colleen Taylor reached out to her boss with strong concerns, only to be dismissed as overly sympathetic to welfare recipients

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Defence

78 stories

Department of Human Services

Department of Social Services

48 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.