Inside Robo-debt: The Minister’s Adviser
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The Media Problem With Robo Debt
Alan Tudge is the minister responsible for robo debt. His office went further than almost anyone else has before in their attempts to erase this story from the headlines. They took the personal information of people who had complained about their Centrelink debts and they wrote released it to the media. Rochelle says at the time it was an incredibly simple process to plant these stories to counter the critical attention that robo debt was getting because she just had to look to her favourite journalist.
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