Culture of ‘fear’ detailed at Royal Commission hearing

ABC NEWS (Australia)
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A Royal Commission into the Robodebt scheme has heard of a culture of 'fear' at the department of social services as scrutiny of the unlawful project intensified. A former in-house lawyer says the department's new boss was controlling and that no-one wanted to give her bad news.

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