Former top public servant Kathryn Campbell says she was set up to take the blame for the robo-debt crisis.
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has slammed former top public servant Kathryn Campbell for launching a “furious tirade blaming everyone else” after she claimed she was “set up as the scapegoat” for the robo-debt crisis.
“There had been ministerial comments from Minister Shorten about me and no one else, just me. He drew parallels about problems with Morrison and I. He did try and connect me to Mr Morrison, so I thought there was a bit of an angle there,” she said on Saturday.The Coalition-era scheme, overseen by ministers including Morrison and Alan Tudge, issued automated debts to social security recipients based on unlawful calculations, traumatising some recipients.
“Ms Campbell, you are not a scapegoat; you were involved in robo-debt. There were 430,000 scapegoats; they are our fellow Australian citizens who had unlawful debt notices raised against them by the most powerful institution in Australia,” he said.
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