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

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said in answer to an earlier question that the government stopped the robodebt scheme when it was found not to be 'sufficiently legal', I think he said—or words to that effect. Prime Minister, when did the government know that robodebt was defective? Was it after the 76 Administrative Appeals Tribunal cases in 2017? Or was it after the threats of self harm on 14 occasions in 2017? Or was it the legal action by those people who the government was ripping off which forced it to stop the scheme?

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