School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)

by Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran

The Morrison government is fighting to keep documents about robodebt from public view. However, there is a lot of incriminating information already publicly available. PhD candidate Dhakshayini’s article briefly recaps the top five things the government does not want us to know about robodebt:

1. Robodebt still continues on today, minus illegal “income averaging”
2. Robodebt (and welfare fraud) is really about criminalising the poor
3. Robodebt was just the beginning
4. Robodebt is a predictive policing technology
5. Our lives are in the hands of a few technology experts

Read the full article from Pro Bono Australia here.