this is quite a broad story in the connections that cross Govt terms.
A senior lawyer at the heart of the disastrous and deadly Robodebt scheme has left her Commonwealth job after it was discovered she was consulting for an outside firm that provides legal advice to government departments.
The former chief counsel of the Department of Human Services (DHS), Annette Musolino, was allowed to resign from her job after the ABC put questions about her case to Government Services Minister Bill Shorten.
Her departure comes nearly 12 months after she was harshly criticised in a report by the Robodebt royal commission.
According to the royal commission, Robodebt was a catastrophic, politically motivated scheme to identify fraud by averaging out welfare recipients' incomes over an entire year. The dysfunctional and inaccurate method drove at least two young men to suicide and financially and psychologically destroyed others.
AbClonk.
make of it what you will.... the Shorten connection looks likely to raise some hackles as the Robodebt link does.
the interesting point I want to make though is if Robodebt was intended to "crack down on fraud" why then did they operate the NDIS as a highway for fraud and voting to develop without any oversight? why were private consultant businesses allowed to commit such lucrative fraud? I won't go into the suspected covid frauds.
is it because they were intent of damaging the least capable of surviving such an assault on their meagre income? did the Libs intend to crush the poor who had been dependent on govt income for sometimes only a short period in their lives.
make of it what you will.
