Inside Robo-debt: The Minister’s Adviser
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The Summer of Robodet
In late 2016 and all hell breaks loose. Alan Tudge was determined to turn what he saw as a media crisis into a media opportunity. The government has gone from a few thousand manually checked debts to a machine that automatically spits out those debts at a rate of 20,000 per week. These are riddled with errors. And soon people went to the media with their stories. At least in independent media, they started blowing up.
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