After hundreds of hours of evidence and a million tendered documents, the robodebt royal commission is ready to deliver its findings.
Felicity de Somerville was attempting to pay for medication for her one-year-old daughter, who was fighting a bad chest infection, when she realised about $11,500 had been drained from her bank account by Centrelink in 2017.
The report, which will be handed down by Commissioner Catherine Holmes, comes after hundreds of hours of evidence were heard across nine weeks of public hearings from September as well as a million tendered documents. Jennifer Miller’s son Rhys Cauzzo, 28, took his own life in January 2017 after being notified of Centrelink debts of about $17,000. The commission heard that after Cauzzo’s death, Miller found a handwritten suicide note making reference to the debts on his fridge.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison appeared as a witness at the royal commission due to his involvement in the launching of the scheme in 2015 as then social services minister.
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