Robodebt

The federal government will pay victims of Robodebt an extra $475 million in compensation in what is the largest class action settlement in Australian history. 

Kathryn Campbell has resigned from her job in the wake of the the royal commission report into the robodebt scandal.

Almost half a million Australians were victims of Robodebt. Others were victims of Centrelink’s automated debt recovery systems.  

The Albanese government will establish a royal commission into the previous government’s Robodebt welfare scheme.

The human cost of the Robodebt fiasco is difficult to assess and involves much more than financial losses, writes Peter Whiteford.

ParentsNext compels mothers into makework rather than work and devalues the unpaid caring work they do, writes Elise Klein and Eve Vincent.