Political thriller, emotional human drama, a powerful look at people battling the system and the heavy toll it took on many of them: SBS documentary series The People vs Robodebt has it all. Across ...

Senate estimates hearing also hears a second investigation is under way into Paul Brereton’s conduct ...

When two young Australians suddenly receive debt letters demanding they pay Centrelink thousands of dollars, they don’t realise they’re caught up in what will become one of the biggest scandals in ...

Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

What began as a government plan to crack down on welfare fraud turned into one of Australia’s biggest public scandals. An ...

The long-awaited robodebt royal commission report landed today, making searing adverse findings against both politicians and bureaucrats. Key individuals are denounced in stark moral terms: for ...

Amid rising unemployment and a deepening cost-of-living and housing crisis, mounting evidence is emerging of ongoing punitive and illegal cutoffs of welfare payments to impoverished recipients, ...

Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes has referred multiple individuals involved with the illegal scheme for civil and criminal prosecutions and other actions. But the names remain secret. They ...

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has backflipped and will now scrutinise senior public servants involved in the ...

The payment amounts to the biggest class action settlement in Australian history. The law firm that spearheaded to action, Gordon Legal, is urging people who were victims of the robodebt scheme to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for ...