Scott Morrison’s “trainwreck” efficiency on the robodebt royal fee was “triggering” for victims and confirmed he is discovered nothing because the federal election.
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten delivered that scathing appraisal on Wednesday after the previous prime minister gave proof concerning the illegal scheme that devastated 1000’s of Australians.
Mr Morrison was social companies minister when robodebt was began and prime minister when it was shut down after a authorized problem.
Robodebt noticed a median earnings determine used to calculate welfare entitlements, which created plenty of non-existent money owed and wrongly recovered greater than $750 million from 381,000 individuals.
“What we got was peak, vintage Morrison; lecturing, hectoring, not answering questions, splitting hairs on simple yes-no questions … we’ve seen him basically say ‘I knew nothing, I did nothing, I’m a good person’,” Mr Shorten instructed reporters.
“Scott Morrison had an opportunity to attend the royal commission, personally apologise, accept personal responsibility … for this massive unlawful scheme.
“The truth the royal commissioner has needed to ask him if he is listening in any respect to the questions, it’s nearly the type of tv you watch along with your fingers over your eyes however you are peaking simply to see the subsequent extremely poor behaviour.”
Mr Shorten called on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to clarify what he’d made of Mr Morrison’s display and said the Liberal party appeared “unrepentant”.
“It’s in all probability time now for Mr Dutton, who voted to defend Mr Morrison’s a number of ministries, who was clearly an enthusiastic cupboard minister approving the illegal robodebt scheme, to say the place does he stand on robodebt?” he mentioned.
“Does he apologise for what’s occurred, and does he assist the proof of Mr Morrison absolutely … is something Mr Morrison is saying making him really feel uncomfortable?”
Mr Shorten said former human services minister Marise Payne had “thrown Mr Morrison underneath the bus” when she gave evidence on Tuesday, although he added the former PM had “returned the favour” by blaming his colleague.
