8. Advice is just advice - what the lawyers knew about Robodebt

In this episode, Caroline takes us through the many different ways in which lawyers in the Commonwealth Government knew that Robodebt was illegal well before the Federal Court settlement in late 2019. You might not remember who wrote the constitutional law text book, but you would remember going to a conference where an eminent KC dismantles your program point by point. Danielle's deep loathing of ritual data collection proves sensible when we discuss the work that DHS lawyers did in re...