We don’t need to wait for tomorrow’s story to know that something has gone deeply wrong here. As with robodebt, obscene amounts of money have been wasted on a system designed to inflict harm, to punish desperate people for having the temerity to seek help. In this case, many appear to have enriched themselves off the back of it, lining their pockets with blood money. Australian politicians have long profited politically off this trail of human misery. But perhaps only a royal commission can get to the bottom of where the money has gone, and measure the true cost of the system we all enabled.
The money trail of human misery. By Rachel Withers, The Monthly