Personal information of Robodebt victimswas released to journalists in an effort to deter them from speaking out, a former media adviser to ex-human services minister Alan Tudge has told a royal commission.
Key points:
- Rachelle Miller said in response to growing criticism, the government adopted a counter-narrative strategy in the “more friendly media”
- The commission heard Ms Miller’s crisis strategy also included tracking down debts from when Labor was in office
- Shesaid the government released personal information of Robodebt “case studies” to the media to deter more people from speaking out
Rachelle Miller was Mr Tudge’s senior media adviser while he was in charge of the illegal debt recovery program as the human services minister in the …
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