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An ex-Coalition minister has denied dismissing legal advice about robodebt, saying he passed it to then PM Scott Morrison "within two hours".

Mathew Thompson is one of the Australians who was accused of owing thousands of dollars to the government.

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

When problems with the scheme were revealed, former minister Stuart Robert wanted to “double down” rather than apologise and correct the error, a royal commission was told.

Angus Taylor labels Labor’s plans to change the tax rate on earnings from large super balances ‘a super-sized broken’ election promise; Teal MP Allegra Spender says Australia ‘relies too much’ on income and company tax. Follow updates here.

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Stuart Robert would take meetings with people during parliamentary sitting days while deliberately starving himself. The then minister for government services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme was proud of it, actually. He told anyone who would listen that he ate nothing, sometimes for days in a row, while the nation’s MPs were in Canberra working their longest hours. “Do you know why?” he said to one person with whom he was meeting in late 2019, before taking the liberty to ans...

A senior Liberal frontbencher has attacked the suite of possible superannation reforms flagged by Labor this week as “one of the biggest broken promises” in recent history and has accused the government of trying to implement a “death tax”.

Jeannie-Marie Blake says watching the royal commission into the scheme has been ‘triggering’ after giving evidence with striking frankness

More than three-quarters of Australians are sceptical about superannuation being used for purposes other than retirement income.