Centrelink worker recounts ‘callous indifference’ from superiors after raising alarm about robodebt

Colleen Taylor tells royal commission that staff were told ‘not to interrogate’ injustices facing welfare recipients

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On the stand, Colleen Taylor seemed to remember a lot more about robodebt than some of her superiors.

Her appearance at the royal commission on Tuesday introduced Australians to a frontline Centrelink worker who had the moral compass to tell her superiors something they either did not or pretended not to know: that the robodebt program was wrong.

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