‘Thousands’ of Public Servants to Replace Robodebt: Shorten

Minister Bill Shorten has vowed to put the “human” back into government services amid a hiring spree to bolster public servant ranks in the wake of the Robodebt inquiry. “What we’re doing is putting the ‘human’ back into human services—literally 1,000s of ongoing public servant positions have been created,” Mr. Shorten said.  The government services minister also said the scheme was a blemish on the former Coalition government.  “If I was a former coalition minister I wouldn’t be breathing a sigh of relief,” he said. “Something grievously went wrong … [ministers] will wear the stigma of Robodebt on their Wikipedia CV for the rest of their lives.”...