Victorian MP joins Bridget Archer and Keith Wolahan in criticising Coalition’s Centrelink debt recovery scheme
Morrison, who has expressed “deep regret” about unintended consequences of the scheme, told parliament in July that Labor was pursuing a campaign of “political lynching” against him.in the robodebt scheme but has backed Morrison to stay in parliament and leave at a time of his choosing.
But Morrison is increasingly isolated in the Coalition, with the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, Archer and Liberal senator Andrew Braggas the member for Cook following the royal commission report.In August Wolahan, the member for Menzies in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, said he was struck by the “unfairness” of robodebt and “how it was not competent”.
“As someone who’s a Liberal and believes in the sanctity of the individual, due process and the presumption of innocence, it offended all of those. It was illiberal, it reversed the onus and it hurt people.”
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