Former government minister Christian Porter has given evidence at the robodebt royal commission, accepting some responsibility for the scheme he described as 'clunky' and 'easily fixable'. 9News
royal commission, accepting some responsibility for the scheme he described as "clunky" and "easily fixable".
Porter was Social Services Minister from 2015 to 2017 and in January 2017 was filling in for Alan Tudge as Human Services Minister. "As we went further into the process of interrogating what was actually occurring, it seemed to my Office and I that the processes hadn't been very well designed," Porter said.But Porter said he did raise his concerns with then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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