The Australian Parliament House, on the 7th of July
2023, refused to give video of the night of the alleged rape of
Brittany Higgins to the Federal Court, which put the Australian
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The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has identified appalling dishonesty and lapses in government processes that had serious consequences for the innocent, and their families, who were hounded for non-payment of fictitious debts. The final report clearly documented the poor performance of several government ministers and senior public servants, who quite frankly should have known better than to embrace what the Federal Court concluded to be an illegal and shameful scheme to the detriment of nearly 500,000 Australians, leading to tragedy with the loss of at least two lives.
A combination of key elements made this scandal possible. The first is a Coalition culture, an ideology almost, that leads them to so easily assert that welfare recipients cheat, and that unemployment benefit recipients are dole bludgers. The Human Services minister at the time, Alan Tudge, was saying exactly this when he appeared on A Current Affair in 2016 with a message to anyone who owed Centrelink money: Well find you, well track you down and you will have to repay those debts and you may end up in prison. This general attitude reflects a complete lack of understanding of and empathy for low-income earners, the disadvantaged and those in need. It is perceptible in the Coalitions strategy to oppose the Voice a most derogatory view of First Australians.
Second, a group of public servants lost sight of their basic job, namely to give full, frank and fearless advice, to assist ministers in delivering their policy platforms and good government. Some have argued that, in the end, they must do as instructed by government. But there is an important qualifier here: only if what they are asked to do is legal. This poses the obvious question as to why all players were not focused on legality right from the outset....
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Thursday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI
Director Christopher Wray demanding answers.
