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The Robodebt royal commission will tell us who's to blame, but that's just the start

Written by Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Today will be a moment of truth for hundreds of thousands of Australians and for what the federal court has condemned as a “shameful chapter” in Australian public administration.

This morning, the Governor-General will be presented with the final report of the royal commission into the automated debt-recovery system known as Robodebt.

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