Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

Despite the protestations of the opposition, it is a fact that the scheme was illegal. It is a fact that 764,000 Australian citizens—who pay the opposition's wages, by the way—were unlawfully served with debt notices. The point that really remains, in conclusion, is simply this. The architects of robodebt believed that the ends justified the means. The only remaining question for me is: when will all the architects at the top of the robodebt tree take full accountability and take full culpability and responsibility for the most illegal administrative scheme run by any government in the history of the Commonwealth?

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