It was a $700 million mistake, but they refuse to apologise.Another $700 million dollar "mistake" by the LNP, but they are the best with accounts apparently.
Speers: So this was a flawed system, you were wrong to do it, but you won't apologise?
Porter: There's litigation ongoing and that litigation argues, among other things, negligence and we don't concede that.
Speers: Does legally insufficient mean illegal?
Porter: There wasn't a lawful basis.
Speers: It means it was illegal?
Porter: You can use that but that's a criminal term. Civilly, it was unlawful. There was no lawful basis for it.
Attorney-General concedes hundreds of millions in debt were racked up unlawfully
The Federal Government is refusing to apologise to people caught up in its controversial Robodebt scheme, despite conceding hundreds of millions of dollars in debt were racked up unlawfully.
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