Bernie Quinn, for Gordon Legal, said he was "delighted" to tell the court the matter had been "resolved". There are agreed terms and a settlement deed will be executed in the next few days
Justice Bernard Murphy congratulates the parties on resolving a "large" and "complex" case. He says they've saved a lot of "time and expense".
We'll hear from Gordon Legal at 2.30pm
Terms here
Worth noting that the people who had debts initially raised through averaging and then provided payslips which were used to substantiate their debts won't receive any money
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Here is Kathryn Campbell, then head of DHS, now DSS, blaming welfare recipients and the media (which means, mostly my colleague @knausc) for problems with the #robodebt program theguardian.com/australia-news…
Nearly a year after Victoria Legal Aid won a landmark #robodebt test case, Gordon Legal's class action trial is set to get underway in the federal court at 10.15am.
I will be covering for the @GuardianAus and tweeting where possible.
Here is @Paul_Karp's report of the government's climbdown a week before the VLA settlement. Stuart Robert called it a “refinement” of the program, and said only a “small cohort” was affected. theguardian.com/australia-news…
New: Stuart Robert says Services Australia will resume debt raising activity from 2 November (except in Victoria due to state of disaster). Debt recovery (that is, enforcing repayments) will recommence from February 2021. @AmyRemeikis
Full statement here.
Katy Gallagher: Do you agree with you Coalition colleagues that the current rate of jobseeker acts as a disincentive?
Ruston says it's too early to say at this point.
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’”.