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What's kind of depressing reading through the Australia Day honours list is how many of these people getting gongs are actually really bad people.
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Kathryn Campbell is the woman most responsible for #robodebt, a punitive and probably illegal algorithm that caused hundreds of thousands of Australians to be harassed for welfare debts they hadn't incurred 
Peter Botten is the boss of giant oil company Oil search, whose governance record in PNG has been controversial and whose main product is, you know, destroying the planet
This is before we even get onto the politicians of dubious renown, like Peter Reith
Anyway none of this should take away from the many worthy recipients of honours, especially in medicine and the arts
