The fruit of politicizing the Bondi massacre:
The West Australian is using it to try and undermine A. Albanese. A new RWNJ variant to test out and evolve?
But will "less votes for A.A." = "more votes for Liberals"?
Could be more divisiveness will strengthen Greens and RWNJ parties.
Paul Murray, Sky New host, #MurdochMinion.
Who's got quotes of Paul Murray addressing Robodebt (apparently associated with 2000 deaths)?
#PaulMurray #TheWestAustraliam #Perth #WA #Robodebt #Bondi #AusPol
"So, what's the problem?" (Moir, 26/12/25)
#auspol #ausnews #vicnews #moir #centrelink #robodebt #jobseeker
Between 1996 and 2026 is 30 years. In that time we have had a Liberal federal government for 21 years and a Labor government for 9 years made up of two terms of 5 and 4 years with a 9 year gap between them.
Look around you, if you see something that’s shitty it’s more likely it was a Liberal government that did it. #auspol #robodebt Mutual (but not equal)obligations, Indue Card, Job Network, Private School funding, The GST…
What could possibly go wrong, wrong, wrong ?
@backupbear I see they have learned their lesson from #RoboDebt #robodebtrepeat
Welcome to #robodebt all over again, only this time, it's the #NDIS:
"Data from the Administrative Review Tribunal found 80 per cent of reviews into NDIS plans resulted in overturned decisions."
Overturned decisions despite the fact that the #NDIS budget for lawyers, like robodebt is certainly being used.
The parties who've repeatedly failed Australia in very serious ways (see below for some examples) think it's best to limit membership to themselves?
What a surprise. #RoboDebt #AbuseOfRefugees #AgedCareCrisis #HousingCrisis #DemonisationIfTheUnemployed #AUKUS #RecognitionOfTheKhymerRouge #CorruptionOfTheAustralianPublicService #CorporateCapture #OnlineGambling #ClimateChange #GazaGenocide
Looks like ITV are going to do a show about #robodebt called Shakedown next year: https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/scandalous-shocking-shakedown-abcs-gripping-new-drama-exploring-human-cost-robodebt
"Lib Dem peer Tim Clement–Jones has asked the government in a written parliamentary question to explain why it had “not published the business case and data protection impact assessments”. Malevolent idiocy affecting 23,500 families, 100,000 people #Robodebt
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit cr...
WTAF? Just got this from the ATO. This is the sum total of the information provided*.
'We've overpaid you ten years ago and now we are going to deduct that amount.'
No calculation, no reason, just trust us that we know the $ amount we fucked up 10 years ago and we're not fucking this $ amount up now.
What fucking clown runs a financial institution like this?!
*The letter goes on to give you a standard spiel about contact numbers and addresses. It's not a large amount, but the hubris and lack of basic governance is fucking staggering #ato #robodebt
They mean illegal not flawed #Robodebt 2.0
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ixeh4sx7e2e5z5ugpmkrptee/post/3m47ooklgec2e
ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including people on Centrelink benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/27/ato-tax-repayments-debt-collector
The ATO is handballing thousands of people to Recoveriescorp. This misstep by the ATO is going to have disastrous consequences, like we saw with RoboDebt.
Recoveriescorp is a debt collector that's funded by private equity.
The business-model for private equity is buy-up other companies. This buy-up generates a massive debt. Companies that get consumed by a private equity firm are usually saddled with that debt. But, the reason those companies were up for sale is they were in bad shape. Now they've gone from underperforming to being in existential crisis. Their primary motivation becomes making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and by any means possible. Recoveriescorp is desperate to make money, and will hit anyone to make a buck.
What kind of company is Recoveriescorp?
Follow the money!
Recoveriescorp is owned by Nutun Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, which is part of Dove Bidco Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allegro Funds Pty Ltd.
Clear as mud.
How about Allegro Funds?
Back in January 2023, news emerged that PwC had been leaking secret Australian Government tax plans to corporations for up to ten years. PwC had abused its position as consultants to the Australian Government. Additionally, PwC ran what appears to me is a sham investigation to cover-up their own dirty deeds. (For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal).
As the result of this scandal, PwC lost A$680 million, about 20% of its overall income.
To extricate itself from the disaster of its own making, PwC spun-off the part of its business responsible for the acursed "Government Services". That was in June 2023. (For more info, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/pwc-appoints-new-ceo-will-sell-off-government-business/102521482). The core of new company was 117 former PwC partners, then filled-out with more than 1,500 other PwC staff. It was named Scyne Advisory.
In November 2023, PwC sold Scyne Advisory to Allegro Funds for $1.
You read that right: one dollar.
Now Recoveriescorp, owned by Allegro Funds and haunted by the ghost of Scyne Advisory (née PwC), has a fresh deal with the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO hasn't learned anything from its past mistakes. They did a deal with Recoveriescorp to act as a debt collector and try to claw money from people on Centrelink.
#AusPol #RoboDebt #ATO #AustralianTaxationOffice #Centrelink #Recoveriescorp #PwC #ScyneAdvisory #AllegroFunds
#Robodebt 2.0 well advanced
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lia4ywzl2c2kt4dn3kzbywog/post/3m3xyb2ys5q2j
"Why didn’t Services Australia automate internal notification of when debts are complete?"
Because corrupt system.
Reminder: architect of #Robodebt, Kathryn Campbell still has an OAM and retired from $900,000 #AUKUS position.
First Nations = prison for stealing food. KC enabled stealing lives.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y6l4xvoigjcuug4at2w7ywoj/post/3m3v6pvmhns2u
“We are the robots” - Kraftwerk
https://overland.org.au/2025/10/killer-robots-can-dance-too/
#Robodebt was not a failure, it was a resounding fascistic success at bastardising the most vulnerable in society, almost entirely devoid of any repercussions on the governmental fascist bastards who deployed it against the people
#auspol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:de373gjkc2zgh6l6srtp5ldq/post/3m2sslbovgs22
don’t want to hijack/wreck an interesting thread on AI by quote-posting, so instead have re-posted @eb’s original visual, to talk about something else.
it’s an example of the sort of performative thinking behind australia’s “robodebt” program, signed off by Kathryn Jane Campbell, AO, CSC
——-
it’s an example of why we must “put not our faith in princes” (leaders).
was just laughing/ not laughing with an old work colleague last week about our government department line manager, > 30 years ago, way before robodebt, way before Campbell, who always and only ever wanted everything presented as a spreadsheet
at the time, i had been hired to try and reconcile millions $ in incorrect accounting charges affecting thousands of clients.
i had managed to identify about 95% of the errors, but no accounting system can work when there are no unique IDs for each transaction. there was never going to be 100% of transactions resolved, but the line manager sat on the results for nearly a year instead of acting. i think she was holding out for her annual performance review to make a show of achieving grand results on a problem that had haunted the department for years.
no thought of the clients/people who were the point of the whole process, and also haunted by the prospect of losing everything they owned. or the need to ensure the system design flaw (no unique transaction ID) had been corrected, and could not re-occur
yes, the old public service system was flawed, but i think they did systems-thinking really well.
this, on the other hand, was an example of the new neo-lib era of cost-cutting, accompanied by some flawed assumptions about the benefits of a new digital era.
privatisation has only magnified the problem of performative action. (think musk+ US dept Social Security + original program COBOL dates)
Campbell of robodebt fame has a bachelor of Applied Science, a Master of Info Science and an MBA
——-
qualifications do not necessarily = genius. if people just don’t know what they are doing, how would they know whether they have useful tools or not?
Campbell was the Secretary of the Department of Human Services, & played a key role in the illegal debt recovery scheme known as #Robodebt. At two Senate committee inquiries, Campbell controversially shifted the blame of Robodebt to the victims, and refused to accept people had died by suicide after receiving illegal Robodebt notices.
Campbell moved onto the Secretary of the Department of Social Services from September 2017 to July 2021. She became Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from July 2021 to July 2022.
————
In July 2022, she was removed as Secretary of DFAT, and was appointed to the defence portfolio as an advisor to the #AUKUS program, while retaining the remuneration of her previous role. …
#Auspol #Robodebt #PerformativeManagement #AUKUS #HeavenHelpUsAll
