Thread by @strangerous10

#RobodebtRC Greggery suggests that with all the evidence we’ve seen it appears former DSS Dep Secretary Serena Wilson made the decision to mislead the Ombudsman by removing the 2014 legal advice. Wilson insists she can’t recall, but also can’t explain why anyone would. [1/2]

#RobodebtRC Greggery suggests Serena Wilson was “caught out” by the Ombudsman, & went on to deliberately hide the 2014 legal advice.
And that Wilson’s lack of recall is just a case of being “Dishonest”
A brutal end as Wilson rejects all assertions against her. [2/2]

And off I go to collect the kids.

Glad I could squeeze these clips out. They are frightening as Eric Banana suggests 😬

Hope to resume abit later.

Scott Britton on now, got it on in the background.

Don’t forget he was thrown under the bus yesterday by Jason Ryman who said he wanted to push ahead despite inadequate testing on Robodebt.
And that he (Ryman) was only following Briton’s instructions.

Scott Britton tells the Commissioner
“I don’t know what we were thinking at the time” 🤦‍♂️ #IRemember

Can see Angus Scott now bring up an email from Jason Ryman to Scott Britton, regarding PAYG cleanup. Ryman was grilled about it yesterday and said he would have been under instruction from Britton.

Britton: “I don’t remember”
“I don’t recall”

Scott KC grilling Britton now.

They are emails from 2015, attaching a DSS policy document which Ryman initially said he never had seen, but then conceded he ‘might’ have seen and been under instruction from Britton.

Britton leaning on “can’t recall” as his main evidence.

“I relied on the advice of others” (referring to legal advice he says he didn’t check/see)

Give us a break Britton, you were the General Manager, Ryman’s boss, others relied on YOU. FFS

Commissioner suggests Britton either deceived DSS or acted in coordination with them, to remove wording about averaging in a policy document.

Britton gets defensive, said he would never deceive. But can’t give any other possibility to what Commissioner suggests. Ouch.

Holy crap. This man who says he can’t recall anything including why the scheme went ahead despite shocking testing results. He is pushed on if he can provide any explanation at all.

Britton says its possible people were in fear of now deceased Malisa Golightly. 😒

So his evidence is, the only explanation he can provide for Robodebt going ahead despite BAD test results, is sorry folks, we may have not wanted to upset the DHS Dep Secretary at the time. She was really scary.

Appalling.

Britton asked if he was “in charge” at the time.

A short pause, before shirking responsibility and insisting he was only “following instructions”

Commissioner asks him to name names.

He names Mark Whitwell (next witness, assume tomorrow).
And deceased Malisa Golightly.

Serving scrambled Serena Wilson & a Scott Britton fritter for breakfast tomorrow friends 👨‍🍳

Greggery may be serving a well done Whitnell for lunch 😂