Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

Every official inquiry into the Robodebt scheme’s systemic cruelty to welfare recipients has now ended with all those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian government said on Thursday it had agreed to pay a further A$475 million ($308.66 million) in ...

Damning testimony will not land former Robodebt bureaucrats inside a courtroom, because the law empowering Australia's corruption watchdog to penetrate the right to silence is built with a shield.

Morrison's failure to realise misleading advice was due to shortcomings by federal departments, the commission found. The corruption watchdog did not make recommendations in its final report. Two ...

The secret final chapter of the robodebt royal commission has finally been released, nearly two-and-a-half years after the probe recommended criminal and civil investigations into politicians and ...