Commissioner Catherine Holmes' damning report into the Robodebt scheme lays out how a policy debacle unfolded between the bureaucracy and the government, calling it 'crude and cruel'.
Central to her findings is the fact that, from the earliest days, bureaucrats and the minister responsible for starting the scheme, Scott Morrison, were advised it would be unlawful, without legislative change. That advice was ignored, with catastrophic consequences. Chief political correspondent Laura Tingle reports.
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