Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

that those opposite knew it was unlawful from 2007 to 2013; the government is not acknowledging that at all. The government are working on the understanding that those opposite used exactly the same process from 2007 to 2013 and we accept that those opposite did that in good faith at the time. And the reason I know that is that I have a media release from June 2011 from the member for Maribyrnong and the member for Sydney saying:

A new data matching initiative between Centrelink and the Australian Taxation Office is expected to claw back millions of dollars from welfare recipients who have debts with the Australian Government.

That is what we all now know.

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