Compliance and Risk

Delegated authority and advice was trusted by the Social Services secretary, even if nobody in Scott Morrison’s office listened.

Robodebt’s conceptual kernel might have worked brilliantly – and possibly still could – if senior public servants and their ministers had been more creative and less impatient.

There is something special about Canberran suspension of disbelief. If it was a bookie, a fishmonger or a landfill operator their licence would be stripped for tilting the scales…