The people who helped expose the Coalitions ‘crude and cruel’ robodebt scheme
New documentary The People vs Robodebt tells the story of how a disastrous automated Centrelink debt recovery scheme was brought down
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When Guardian Australia broke the first story which revealed the Coalition’s robodebt scheme was flawed and grossly unfair at the tail end of 2016, the government’s media strategy was to dismiss reporter Christopher Knaus as a left-wing journo.
Almost nine years on, Knaus is one of the key voices in SBS’s three-part documentary, The People vs Robodebt, which tells the story of how a disastrous automated Centrelink debt recovery scheme was exposed by brave whistleblowers, victims, digital activists, lawyers and journalists.