Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. The recipients of Australian honours and awards are rightly held in high regard by everyday Australians. In 2019, Kathryn Campbell, the public servant responsible for robodebt and a former senior officer in the ADF, was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia for 'distinguished service to public administration through senior roles with government departments'. An officer of the Order of Australia is awarded for 'distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or to humanity at large'. Thanks to the robodebt royal commission, we now know that Ms Campbell's department received legal advice in 2014 that the robodebt scheme, the one she drove for years, was not lawful. Does the government plan to strip Ms Campbell of her Order of Australia?