Rudd manned up and took responsibility even though in every case it was the contractor failing to adequately supervise. The Commonwealth's role was merely as the financier of the scheme.
Compare with Morrison, Payne and Porter - Robodebt. Their illegal policy directly lead to 1200 deaths by suicide - And they hid like the cowards they are.
“The proceeding has exposed a shameful chapter in the administration of the commonwealth social security system and a massive failure in public administration,” Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy said in the judgment.
The scheme wrongly hounded more than 443,000 people for $1.7m in welfare debts most never owed after the government switched to the flawed system.
