Kimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Ruston. In 2017, the Senate Community Affairs References Committee found that robodebt was 'so flawed that it was set up to fail' and recommended it be suspended immediately. That was in 2017. The then Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, refused to apologise for the trauma, stress and shame inflicted by robodebt on Australia's most vulnerable. Now the scheme is suspended, will the current minister apologise for the trauma, stress and shame inflicted by the government's deeply flawed and unfair scheme?