Legal jokes aside, the exposure of jaw-dropping deficiencies in the professional conduct of government lawyers and senior staff with legal qualifications are among the most jarring of the findings from the robodebt royal commission.
The bottom line is that had the original legal advice not been fudged, lied about, ignored and in some cases simply not noticed, robodebt could never have happened.
That is, unless a hostile senate had agreed to amend the Social Services Act, which is so deeply unlikely as to be almost laughable.
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