Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Transformation) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for that question, and I think it gives me a chance to correct the record, from some of the inaccuracies contained in those reports. I start by saying that there is a fundamental principle within our welfare system—that is, when somebody has been overpaid money either inadvertently, because they've told us the wrong information, or deliberately, when they've given us incorrect information, they are required to repay that money. That fundamental principle of our welfare system has been upheld by governments of this political persuasion and by governments of that political persuasion.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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