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📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 Profile picture
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Feb 28, 2023 • 95 tweets • 29 min read • Read on X
There it is. Former DHS secretary Renee Leon said she and 4 other Dept secretaries were sacked by Morrison Govt after the 2019 election because they believed in “frank and fearless advice”.

#Robotdebt
23. This @lukehgomes 2019
gets it a little wrong - Govt decided to #Robotdebt aged pensioners from the start, put those savings into forward estimates, then exempted aged pensioners. Fiscal corruption, yes?

https://t.co/3rVQvQShCbamp.theguardian.com/australia-news…
24. Stuart Robert’s admits Coalition Govt decided in 2016 to subject aged pensioners to #Robotdebt. saving #600 mill.

Now Dutton opposes rich retirees losing a portion of huge tax concessions for income from super balances of more than $3 million. saving $2 bill

Says it all.
25. Stuart Robert lies a lot. #Robotdebt
26. @AngusGthompson report on Stuart Robert’s #Robotdebt evidence. Robert made false statements to media after, according to him, he personally ordered his Dept to end the illegal scheme.

theage.com.au/politics/feder…
27. Today Stuart Robert gave sworn evidence he knew #Robotdebt averaging was misconceived when he became minister in 2019. If that evidence is true he lied when it stopped, falsely claiming it was a Labor program. He admitted to lying to the public at least 3 times today too.
28. Hmmm, Stuart Robert #Robotdebt evidence directly contradicts Leon and Ffrench on legal advice and his reaction to it. The @tburton report.
29. Today’s #Robotdebt evidence by Stuart Robert was, ummm…
30. Indeed he did. I can’t see Stuart Robert surviving his #Robotdebt evidence.
31. Devastating evidence today for Kathryn Campbell. She gave Morrison a callous, unfair, illiberal, dehumanising, ethics-free #Robotdebt, legality irrelevant, via the Dept of HUMAN SERVICES. Public Servant Tenille Collins GUTSY! Catherine Holmes ZINGER!
abc.net.au/news/2023-03-0…
Kathyrn Campbell on the #Robotdebt stand Tuesday - BIG Day.
33. Did Stuart Robert lie to the #Robotdebt RC? The @lukehgomes analysis of his ‘I’m the hero’ evidence.
34. Really interesting @alexutting report on yesterday’s #Robotdebt evidence - the Price Waterhouse Coopers blokes’ evidence on the firm’s ‘Non-Report’ to Kathryn Campbell’s DHS is WILD.
35. Fascinating evidence-packed ABC TV news report on the latest #Robotdebt RC action by Clara Jones. Can’t find her on Twitter. Some good reporting coming out of Brisbane. #Queenslander

36. The @tburton #Robotdebt RC report shows Stuart Robert’s evidence is under pressure.

afr.com/politics/feder…
37. @latingle on how t#Robotdebt RC evidence laid bare a collapse of ministerial accountability enabled by an Dept Secretary disdainful of actual public service.

abc.net.au/news/2023-03-0…
38. Wonderful piece by @JennaPrice on Renee Leon’s #Robotdebt revelations about the state of ‘ Public Service’ leadership culture after 9
Years of Coalition Anti-Stewardship rule - featuring Public Service icon @MarieColemanAO.

https://t.co/1zd85LLjqbcanberratimes.com.au/story/8106271/…
39. Scathing #RobotDebt column by former @canberratimes editor @waterfordJack, who’s covered the CW Public Service for decades. A must read insiders guide to its moment of truth and, cross fingers, renewal, for the people’s sake.

https://t.co/gCQJlIEaLlcanberratimes.com.au/story/8107088/…
40. YES! @SophieScamps gets the ball rolling on depoliticising senior Government job appointments.

#IndependentsDay #Robotdebt.
41. @TurnbullMalcolm accuses Morrison of submitting a false submission to Cabinet for approval of his #Robotdebt proposal.

Someone has to go down for this, seems to be a fair bit of manoeuvring to avoid the bullet. EVERYONE avoiding responsibility = Systemic Failure. Scary.
42. Big big day for Kathryn Campbell at the #Robotdebt RC.
@maximumwelfare thread starts here.

She was in charge of DHS when Cabinet approved an illegal scheme after a false Cabinet submission by Morrison.
43. Robert v Leon by @cathywilcox1

#Robotdebt
44. New to detail, sickened that #Robotdebt retrospectively changed a beneficiary’s entitlement if people didn’t reply to letter doing that. Campbell said she never considered the ‘fairness’ of it. Being legal was enough! It wasn’t even that.

Profoundly illiberal class war.
45. Stunning @beneltham deep dive on the distressing revelations so far in the #Robotdebt RC. And interviews with some victims of a scheme antithetical to the rule of law and profoundly cruel and unfair. ILLIBERAL.

Thanks @TimDunlop for lifting the paywall.
36. BIG: Kathryn Campbell admits she should have ensured #RobotDebt was legal - that she breached the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
37.
38. BIG: Kathryn Campbell admits the #Robotdebt budget submission her Depr was responsible for was false. It outrageously claimed no change to calculating debts! Averaging as proof, anyone? And reversed the onus of p
Campbell claims her ‘inadvertence’ caused her Dept’s false #Robotdebt Cabinet Submission, takes responsibility, claims no ministerial pressure and no Dept conspiracy to pretend the scheme was legal by misrepresenting its implementation to DSS.
39. Kathryn Campbell perpetuated her #Robotdebt Cab Sub lie in staff email.

Today she admits she knew the Govt retrospectively changed entitlements and created new debts due if a dept letter was unanswered - next step debt collectors! The need for legislation OBVIOUS.
40. For your #RobotdebtRC reference in this arvo’s Kathryn Campbell evidence - the Values of the CW Public Service under law.

https://t.co/S2yFagTGGwapsc.gov.au/working-aps/in…
41. In the lunch break I transcribed Fred Chaney’s denunciation of #Robotdebt by in a @7ampodcast during #Ausvotes

He condemns ALL Liberal MPs for failing to oppose it as a betrayal of the essence of liberalism - individual rights.

https://t.co/0bApoJp2aa7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the-v…
42. Jeez, Kathryn Campbell never corrected her false #Robotdebt statements to staff in 2017 when she admits she knew it was false due to whistleblower revelations.
43. Incredible. Kathryn Campbell is cooked I reckon. #RobotdebtRC
44. Kathryn Campbell STILL continued raising debts based in averaging - after she KNEW some debts issued were claims to debts that WERE NOT OWED.

She didn’t even consider it!
45. July 2017 DHS told a citizen may have suicided after false #Robodebt debt demand.

Kathryn Campbell did not order full investigation to improve the system - under Robotdebt there was no search of file to check if new debt was right.

She can’t recall if she fixed the flaw.
46. Bloody hell, a man who suicided after a #Robotdebt new debt demand was a suicide risk, according to his DHS file. DHS did not conclude he was vulnerable - if it was DHS would not have sent a debt collector to his door.

Dickensian.
47. Renee Leon on good Public Service leadership and practice.

#Robotdebt
48. Jan 2017 chief DHS Counsel Musolino told in writing #Robotdebt debts could not be raised from averaging. Kathryn Campbell says no recollection or documentary evidence that she was told & averaging rolled on. System breakdown under Campbell by her own evidence - I wonder why.
49. What is the test for the tort of misfeasance in public office? Kathryn Campbell getting close…

#Robotdebt

https://t.co/twQYKr6KoSmondaq.com/australia/cons…
50. The #RobotDebtRC through the eyes of a victim, Nathan Kearney.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
51. What??? The Vunerability indicator for this poor soul was AUTO-DELETED. #Robotdebt
52. The @lukehgomes wrap of today’s #Robotdebt evidence.

amp.theguardian.com/australia-news…
53. The @alexutting report on today’s #RobotdebtRC evidence.
54. Comprehensive #Robotdebt evidence report by @tburton - suicides, disputed testimony, admission.

afr.com/politics/feder…
55. #RobotdebtRC reveals the urgent need to seriously reform our democratic governance. The Govt has a duty to do so in the public interest, writes @PaulBongiorno.
56. Perfect summation of today’s #RobotdebtRC evidence by Kathryn Campbell.
57. Bill Shorten’s remarks on the #RobotdebtRC evidence in Parliament today.
58. #RobotdebtRC image of the day for mine.
59. Shocking evidence by Dr Elea Wurth - commissioned by the #RobotdebtRC to examine its technical operation.

Those responsible for this rushed, inaccurate, basic rights trampling, illegal scheme created without care for disadvantaged victims MUST be accountable. Thread…
60. You reckon? Morrison & Kathryn Campbell and co must have known this, surely! It’s basic if you give a shit about accuracy of new debts raised or the fallout among innocent or highly vulnerable welfare recipients.

THIS is class war. #RobotdebtRC
61. Now clear that DHS under Kathryn Campbell’s leadership went rogue on #Robotdebt, flouting legislated core Australian Public Service Values. Get this from Louise Macleod, a senior official at the Ombudsman’s office investigating #Robotdebt after a cascade of complaints.
62. Guess which legal advice DHS didn’t give to the Ombudsman as required by law? One that said #Robotdebt averaging to calculate an alleged debt owed was unlawful.

DHS breaks the law to protect disclosure that it’s breaking the law. Career ending for some, surely.
The Ombudsman would have called out #Robotdebt as illegal two years before it shut down had DHS provided legal advice in its possession as required by law.

Diabolical.
64. The @alexutting wrap on today’s #RobotdebtRC evidence.
65. The @lukehgomes report on today’s #RobotdebtRC evidence.

Gee I wish a newspaper had assigned someone to write up colour and import each day, eg Evan Whitton’s daily take on the Fitzgerald RC for the @smh. It’s an involving story for readers.

theguardian.com/australia-news…
66. Hi @maximumwelfare. Seems the #RobotDebtRC is rushing to gather evidence as this is the last week of evidence. More and more abuses of power & system failure coming to light - if it needs an extension it should get it.
67. A #RobotdebtRC tragedy.
68. Comprehensive @CiaraEJones ABC TV news report on today’s #RobotdebtRC evidence. Includes Ombudsman’s investigator Louise Macleod breaking down over DHS bad faith and the Ombudsman’s refusal to take a stand on #Robotdebt in 2017 as she and others urged.
69. The @GavinCoote 4 minute ABC radio report on today’s #RobotdebtRC hearing - much of it told directly by Ombudsman investigator Louise Macleod.
70. Why did Acting Ombudsman Richard Glenn side with bad faith DHS in 2017, overruling his own investigators? Of course Tudge then used Glenn’s report to prove #Robotdebt was legal!

Richard Glenn is on the stand tomorrow.
71. Acting Ombudsman Richard Glenn’s #Robotdebt report in 2017.
72. The lie Acting Ombudsman Richard Glenn told in his 2017 Report, defying contrary advice from his investigators. Why cave in to DHS pressure? #Robotdebt
The #Robotdebt evidence of frontline Centrelink public servant worker ‘Ms Smith’, who gave shit about members if the public. And was punished to speaking up. g Deeply disturbing detail of cruel culture change on the ground where citizens live.
73. 2017 Ombudsman Glenn, the people’s rep:
1. Let DHS cowrite his #Robotdebt report.
2. Deleted legality doubts in his investigator’s draft report.
3. Bowed to DHS fake legality claims without taking AGS advice to check.
4. Said 0 when Tudge used report to PROVE legality.
74. DHS debt review officer Luke Baker’s electrifying testimony about lawless management and chaotic no process at #RobotdebtRC. A toxic, ugly, values-free mess with zero regard for accuracy or fairness. Welfare recipients as random pawns in a savings game.
75. The @alexutting ABC print report on today’s #RobotdebtRC evidence.
76. Centrelink debt review officer Luke Baker names the #Robodebt syndrome syndrome.
76. “The premise of how the debts were raised seemed bizarre or magical.” Centrelink debt review officer Luke Baker on #Robodebt new debt notices.

au.news.yahoo.com/bizarre-debt-n…
77. @tburton on why and how good governance collapsed over #Robotdebt.
78. The @CiaraEJones ABC TV news wrap in today’s #RobodebtRC evidence.
79. Centrelink social worker Taren Preston lays bare abrupt culture shift from care to “so sad too bad” when #Robodebt began. She resigned due to the ‘moral injury’ of not fair, not right scheme where staff concerns stonewalled

Thread: Morrison destroyed our egalitarianism myth.
80. Last words of Jarrad Madgwick before he killed himself after a #Robodebt debt notice.
81. Catherine Holmes says msm c overage patchy, only interested in ministers. PRAISES Twitter live coverage as “a remarkably useful public service” in informing the public.

So true - it’s how I’ve kept up when doing something else. Thank you @maximumwelfare.

#Robodebt
82. #RobodebtRC finished scheduled public hearings today, but may take more oral evidence, Counsel assisting said.

@DarrenODonovan’s take - he’s one of the live-Tweep reporters praised by Catherine Holmes for serving the public interest.
83. Catherine Holmes praises Twitter for informing the public since all bar @abcnews & @GuardianAus delivered ‘patchy’ coverage, @SatPaper too till @SquigglyRick transferred to paywall.

Twitter ain’t quite dead yet.
84. The @alexutting story on Kathleen Madgwick’s #Robodebt evidence. Neither Morrison or Stuart Robert replied to her emails after her son Jarrad killed himself upon receiving a debt notice under the illegal scheme.
85. So hard core & tragically so true. Morrison oversaw a cruel culture transformation in welfare policy & practice that smashed core Oz values. The known illegality & inaccuracy from the start beyond belief. Dunno how Morrison, Campbell, Musolino & Glenn sleep at night.
86. Fabulous nightly @abcnews TV reports on #Robotdebt by @CiaraEJones.
87. #RobotdebtRC stories by @AAPNewswire’s @maevebannister have appeared in many regional papers - and in the @smh - huh?

Her report on Taren Preston’s evidence of Centrelink’s sudden cruel culture shock when #Robodebt arrived.

amp.smh.com.au/politics/feder…
88. @lukehgomes’ long read on the #Robodebt tragedy.

Public service journalism at its best from Luke and the editors who backed him.

amp.theguardian.com/australia-news…
89. Queenslanders shone in the #Robodebt RC. Royal Commissioner, Counsel assisting, and ABC journos @alexutting & @CiaraEJones.

Congrats from a proud #Queenslander who covered the Fitzgerald RC.

@alexlewisjourno on what’s next for the perpetrators.

amp.abc.net.au/article/102074…
90. Zero #RobodebtRC news stories in the Oz (?), very little in Murdoch tabloids. Fairfax patchy. Thank goodness for @SatPaper, @GuardianAus, @AAPNewswire, NCA newswire, the ABC & TWITTER.
91. The @squigglyrick summation of the #RobodebtRC evidence.

How will Parliament, Public Service chiefs & Law Societies deal with the disgraced - imperative to act to revive trust.

Will victims sue for misfeasance in public office?

Will anyone do a deal to spill the beans?
92. @MichaelPascoe01 on #Robodebt
93. Yep. What freaks me is no minister cared about SUBSTANCE of #Robodebt complaints - just poor & powerless, not our voters. Legality, debt notice accuracy, suicides be damned - “so sad too bad”. Cared ONLY about shutting down media interest. Not liberal! https://t.co/gqSieWwmbb
94. The @7ampodcast podcast with @SquigglyRick on the ##RobodebtRC

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7am…
95. Yuk. Morrison blames Kathryn Campbell for illegal #Robotdebt that raised false debts - yet after he closed it down he promoted her to head of DFAT. Come on! Knew too much?
75. ‘Public service’ majes a comeback after #Robodebt
76. Public service reform head Gordon de Brouwer says the APS “lost its soul” over #Robotdebt

Check out the @IPAAorg podcast

https://t.co/tBZau8RkIX
the-riotact.com/public-service…
98. Rex Patrick on Albo’s job gift to Kathryn Campbell. #Robodebt.

#CurtinVotes
77. After Morrison sacked her as Dept of Human Services head, Renee Leon, a former head of the ACT AG’s dept, chaired the ACT’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Steering Committee.

That committee uncovered stats showing ACT cops undercharged sexual assault complaints.
78. About to read the #robodebt report - have the feeling Catherine Holmes is a worthy successor to Tony Fitzgerald, who ran a transformative RC.

#Queenslander

https://t.co/UTOCoDemyFrobodebt.royalcommission.gov.au
78. RC:

“#Robodebt was a crude & cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, & it made many people feel like criminals. In essence, people were traumatised on the off-chance they might owe money. It was a costly failure of public administration, in both human & economic terms.”
@BernardKeane 81. Dutton won’t even say sorry over #Robodebt on behalf of the former Government. The Politics Game is everything for him, just like Morrison.

He’s not fit to be PM.
@BernardKeane 82. @SenPaterson says what a serious leader of the Liberal Party would say of the #RobodebtRC report.

I found this quote in this brilliant @rachelrwithers piece.

https://t.co/Shq5HssxU9themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…

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