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Tim Dornin

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Robodebt stuff up analysis spot on - The Untold Story

Hundreds of thousands of Australians were sent debt notices under the Robodebt scheme. (Tracey Nearmy/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A scathing judicial assessment of the former coalition government's robodebt scheme as a stuff-up rather than a conspiracy was "spot on" a former senior public service official says.

Former Department of Social Security Secretary Finn Pratt told the royal commission into the failed scheme that such characterisations of public sector mistakes were usually correct.

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