“We were just doing the job you voted us to do” Isn’t this the politicized excuse of all corrupt governments? Peter Dutton simply continues the lie of "unintended mistake that all governments make"
According to The AGE
The centre-right Dutch government of Mark Rutte apologised, resigned and went to an election in 2021 when it was found to have falsely accused families of fraudulently receiving welfare payments. Prime Minister Rutte himself had no direct involvement.
However
The centre-right Australian Coalition government, by contrast, persisted with its scam and lied about it all the way into the royal commission’s witness box. And in the Australian case, the former prime minister, Scott Morrison, was not only the creator of the policy but among the prime liars defending it, the commission foun
Of all the ministers who had been responsible for running robo-debt from inception in 2016 to abandonment in 2020, Morrison is the only one still in parliament. And the one to whom the royal commission apportions original sin for robo-debt: “Mr Morrison allowed cabinet to be misled” from the outset in first proposing the policy, writes the royal commissioner, Catherine Holmes, a former chief justice of the Queensland Supreme Court.
“He failed to meet his ministerial responsibility to ensure that cabinet was properly informed about what the proposal actually entailed and to ensure that it was lawful.”
(Hartcher)
Opposition leader Peter Dutton claims the Robodebt Royal Commission was politicised from the very beginning and apologised to
people impacted by the illegal debt collection scheme. (for the mistake made largely by the Public Service)
Source: Claims govt milked political advantage from Robodebt – Michael West
Morrison heads to Italy in a Rush to avoid inconvenient truths
Media outlets such as A Current Affair were more than happy to provide platforms for the demonising effort. “We will find you,” he told the program, “we will track you down, and you will have to repay those debts, and you may end up in prison”.
Source: Morrison, Porter, Tudge: The Robodebt rogues gallery
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused his predecessor Scott Morrison of showing “no contrition whatsoever” after the former PM was named in a scathing Robodebt report.
Source: ‘No contrition’: Albanese slams Morrison’s Robodebt response
Morrison also added that he didn’t hold a hose, telling us: “The proposal was initiated within the public service and was not a government-initiated measure by ministers. It was initiated by departments before I became the minister for social services.” See, nothing to do with him; he was just standing there waiting for a photo…
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