Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank senator for her question. You talk about robodebt. Which party was the party that pursued the issue of the abuse of the robodebt system? It was the Labor Party. We successfully prosecuted that case to the point where the former government eventually threw in the towel and accepted that that system was an illegal system and repaid money to the people that had been abused as a result of that system.

In government, we continue to deal with this issue in a comprehensive and systematic fashion and that means that we continue to look after all of the people who rely on the social security system in this country to receive the appropriate payments. But the reality is the whole robodebt fiasco was dealt with by this government. We prosecuted it in opposition and we have dealt with it in government.