We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. But we would say – I don’t want to, obviously, speculate on potential findings of the commission.” “Some of the evidence has been beyond what we might have envisaged … It’s been quite substantial. “The royal commission was intended to elicit that information,” she said. Wong, representing Anthony Albanese at the hearing, replied that while the court may have found the program was unlawful it would not “be fair to say there had been an interrogation of how that illegality came about”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup She was in charge of the human services department from March 2011 to September 2017, then social services until July 2021, two departments which were central to the robodebt program, and in December 2022 was questioned at the robodebt royal commission.Īt a Senate estimates hearing on Monday, the Greens senator Barbara Pocock questioned why the appointment had been made at a time the government already had findings of the federal court that robodebt was unlawful and had issued letters patent to set up a royal commission.
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