Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the documents.

What we saw here today in the tabling of the documents by the minister was again the government trying to cover up the robodebt scandal. Throughout the public outcry, the Senate inquiry, a flood of AAT court cases and a class action, it has said, 'Nothing to see here.' That's what the government has said: 'Nothing to see here. The system is working as intended.' The Morrison government has attempted to stifle questioning of its decision-making around the biggest social security scandal committed by a government against its people. That's what it's done: it has attempted to stifle questioning of its decision-making around the biggest social security scandal committed by a government against its people.

They have put robots in the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee's Centrelink compliance program inquiry, in the form of the public interest immunity claims. We saw it again today, and we will continue to see it from this government.

Debate interrupted.

Sitting suspended from 18:30 to 20:30