Inside Robo-debt: The Shorten interview
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The Royal Commission on the Public Service
There has been a pattern in Australia political life much more conservative than progressive where if you're on welfare you're treated as less than human. The previous government and it was not just Morrison government the Abbott government Turnbull government seemed to indulge in this sort of right wing fantasy that it's okay to give tax subsidies to the top end of town. But when it's people on welfare getting a few hundred dollars somehow it seems to strike a nerve in some conservative souls that the poor are getting a special deal. So I hope that this Royal Commission remains a guidebook for the public service for another generation. Just give us the free and frank advice. If we have ideas as politicians tell us what we can
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