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Feb 22

#RobodebtRC Jason Ryman, former Director of DHS, points finger at his boss at the time, Scott Britton, as being responsible for pushing ahead with Robodebt despite inadequate testing.

He stops short of saying he did anything about it.

Scott Britton up next after Mr Ryman.😬

Ryman breathing heavily, you can hear the deep breaths, anxious, nerves.

At one stage he said he was put “under pressure” by Britton, then retracted it, but then went on to more or less detail a situation where he would have been put under pressure, by Britton.

Wow. Ryman now says he was not aware at the time of starting Robodebt, that it would lead to such a dramatic increase in interventions.

He says he understands it now but didn’t realise, didn’t know at the time.

This is a former Director, who ran the Pilot for the scheme.

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Feb 22

#RobodebtRC Matthew Roser, former DHS General Counsel, says he ‘can’t recall’ exactly when he became aware of a spike in adverse media reports on the legalities of #Robodebt & ‘can’t recall’ if it occurred to him that he should be checking on its lawfulness. 😳 #IRemember

“It’s not something that I specifically focused on”
“I was certainly not aware of any issues or concerns”
“Not that I recall”
“I can’t recall”

Commissioner starts to grill now on “Best available evidence” that the Dept used when they weren’t even using the best avail evidence

Roser trying to justify using best available evidence when there is “no regard to what it actually proves” (Commissioner’s words).

Roser has no real answer.

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Feb 21

NOT COOLING DOWN JUST YET as the #RobodebtRC lines up 4 former DHS Big Shots for today🔥💺:
➡️ Tim Ffrench - former Chief Counsel DHS
➡️ Matthew Roser - former Gen. Counsel DHS
➡️ Jason Ryman - former Director DHS (2nd app)
➡️ Scott Britton - former Manager DHS (2nd app)

Yesterday a long-standing DHS employee, much further down the chain, recalled everything, insisting it was more a case of not being able to forget rather than not being able remember. Let’s measure Ms Blake’s recollection with that of today’s MUCH more senior DHS people.

And keep #IRemember going, to remind those big Robodebt enablers & implementers, that we aren’t fucking idiots.

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Feb 21

#RobodebtRC Service Australia Compliance Officer tells the commission she is disgusted with other more senior witnesses constantly saying they Don’t Recall, Didn’t Turn Their Mind, etc.

She wanted to tell the Royal Commission something very clear:

“I REMEMBER”

Wow.

Jeannie-Marie Blake. What a groundbreaking testimony, what a humiliation on all those PS saying they can’t fucking remember.

She humiliated them all. Amazing.

I was capturing that and hoping to release a video. In the end it seems nothing recorded and I lost everything. I don’t even have a photo of this brave witness.

But I hope others can do that good work until I’m able to! She deserves it! She was sensational! ❤️😮❤️😢❤️

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Feb 21

#RoboDebtRC Commissioner Holmes crashes Greggery’s party & grills DSS’ Former Chief Counsel Paul Menzies-McVey for seemingly doing absolutely nothing when he noticed Clayton Utz’s 2018 legal advice was left in Draft form. [1/2]

Commissioner keeps pressing as Menzies-McVey gives up the fight, justifying never acting or asking, because even as Chief Counsel, he
“didn’t see an issue” with External legal advice being left in draft form. 😳 [2/2]

It’s back on now, Mr Michael Johnson now who is the Assistant Secretary to the Office of Legal Services Coordination in the Attorney-General’s Department, and has been in this role since around Nov 2018, but in the public service, since 2003.

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Feb 21

#RobodebtRC resumes again, and we must ask ourselves, how much more can Mr Menzies-McVey take?💥🥊

Greggery asking about AAT decisions, and what his own view of those decisions were at the time

MM insists he can’t recall

PS I’m getting increased connection issues, constant lagging and sometimes it even cuts out. Not sure if its me or the overload of viewers, hope the latter

Greggery asks him about the Ombudsman which evidence shows, MM met with.

Amazing, he can’t recall. Seriously, how can you not recall meeting with the Ombudsman over legal concerns into the lawfulness of anything your government is doing. It’s painful listening to this guy.

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