r Analysis: For the hundreds of thousands of Australians impacted by the government's Centrelink robodebt scheme, the year appears to have ended not with a bang but a whimper. As we rolled into 2020, robodebt victims were hopeful. Gordon Legal's huge class action lawsuit - representing some 600,000 Australians who had been saddled with unlawful debts - was gathering pace. Lawyers at the Melbourne firm had every reason to be confident of a significant win. After all, the Federal Court had already found in November last year a key component of the debt recovery scheme â its use of tax office income averaging â had no basis in law.