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

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 answer his own question. “Because I can.”

It seems like no government or senior public servant realised the Robodebt scheme was illegal. But the idea that the Coalition government didn’t know exactly what it was doing is preposterous, argues Zane Alcorn.

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Residents in Wyndham are invited to tune into the The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme’s third block of public […]