The former Liberal human services minister says he knew the robo-debt scheme produced inaccurate results from early 2017.
, who appeared due to his previous role as social services minister, faced the commission in December.of how she planned to run stories about dole bludgers and welfare integrity in more sympathetic “right-wing” outlets to combat the “crisis in left-wing media”.
“There was a strategy to the process,” council assisting the commission, Justin Greggery KC, put to him.The scheme used Tax Office annual income data and averaged it over 26 fortnights, presuming income was the same across each, and put the onus on welfare recipients to prove they didn’t owe the government money.
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