Expert attacks Centrelink robo-debt and 'moral bankruptcy' that allows it


Terry Carney, former member of administrative appeals tribunal, maintains the ‘extortionate’ debt recovery is illegal

Centrelink’s “robo-debt” system is a form of illegal extortion allowed by failings across a “plethora” of democratic and legal institutions, according to a former member of the administrative appeals tribunal.

Prof Terry Carney, a long-serving member of the AAT, has penned an extraordinary attack on the institutional failings that allowed the robo-debt program.

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