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Inside Robo-debt: The Mother

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The Debt Notices and Reese's Death

Jenny Miller's son Reese Corzo was 28 when he took his own life in 2017. The debt notices were sent from an agency called Dun and Bradstreet, a private debt collection company paid on commission by Centrelink. There was no doubt in Jenny's mind then or since that her son's death was directly linked to the debt notices. Desperate for answers she wrote to then human services minister Alan Tudge several times. She kept hitting brick walls and through a circuitous connection from her son's employer the florist she decided to go to the media because she didn't know how else to get answers. All the department said was that Reese had earned too much money while working

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