This is not the full-stop many wanted. The process has not restored the trust in government that was so fundamentally broken by robodebt.
And it has done little to reassure those like Jenny Miller, the mother of Rhys Cauzzo, who took his own life in January 2017 while facing Centrelink debts of about $17,000.
“It’s hard to describe because I feel like I’ve put aside nine years of my life and gotten nothing out of it at all,” she said after the report’s release.
“Like no accountability, no justice, no nothing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/12/robodebt-australia-centrelink-debt-whistleblower-justice-accountability-failed
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It’s a shame that Australians dont think and realise we live in a very corrupted country.
That’s the first step realising this and then trying to do something about it.
We haven’t accomplished the first step yet. We always look to other countries and say oh they are corrupt.
No we are a completely corrupt country
Accountability is only for the rest for us, not for those in power.
They always find a way to avoid being held responsible for whatever they did wrong.
$4500 for gina rinehart and her kids per year forced into her hands at tax time. She literally cannot refuse it.
No fixes for welfare
These are the Labor priorities
Accountability is only for peasants.
Australia currently has the disease of having assholes in power
I really feel for the mother as someone who’s lost a family member to suicide myself. My dad suicided soon after receiving a letter from Centrelink denying him sickness allowance after having a stroke. But it’s a tragic reality that legally, “while facing” is not the same as “because of”. If contributing factors could lead to criminal prosecution I’d love to see both Centrelink and my father’s psychologist and social workers on the stand, but contributing factors wont put them there. It sucks