Quite a development in the #robodebt saga: The government lost 76 cases where the AAT said the debts weren't legally enforceable, Gordon Legal says.
It never appealed – and the decisions weren't made public. theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
Most of these decisions were made in 2017. We'd previously only known about five or six. By not appealing, the government ensured that a higher level of the tribunal which publishes its decisions didn't rule against it.
Alan Tudge is also named in the statement as claim. For example, he is said to have received a brief on 1 March that stated “33% of Robodebt-raised debts ‘were changed to $0 on review/reassessment’”.
On this, I think the government will say that the way the system was supposed to work and didn't know it was unlawful
Anyway here is Alan Tudge at the time saying everything was working great and attacking Acoss abc.net.au/radionational/…
Also - data released to a Senate inquiry this week showed that the total value of all unlawful #robodebts exceeded $1bn. We foreshadowed this back in June theguardian.com/australia-news…
It was, however, lower than the $1.5bn estimate from earlier in the year that was the basis for that story
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