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RoboDebt and Scott Morrison · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi Jeff Allen, thanks for listening to the slippery slope,
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  says everyone. Remember Scotty Morrison, SCOMO
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  former Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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  Look, in the end I think this fellow was a I think it was an
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  embarrassment as a Prime Minister.
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  And seriously, I would like anyone to prove me wrong.
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  That's just my opinion. You can have whatever opinion
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  you want. But I think he made so many
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  mistakes. I couldn't believe how many
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  times I heard him speak. And the way he seemed to not
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  necessarily lie, but he did like to manipulate the truth and it
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  some of it was blatant. And you have to sit there
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  thinking, how does this follow? Think Anyway, I'm talking about
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  Scott Morrison because obviously we've had this this big inquiry
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  into the the robo debt, robo debt inception.
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  So listen and look, so many people caught up in this issue
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  with the robo debt, even myself, me and my wife were both
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  harassed. Well, my wife more so harassed
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  at various times in the past kind of.
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  However many years ago it was now over this supposed debt with
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  Centrelink at the time. I remember it first came out we
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  were living far North Queensland I think was I was working as a
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  police officer. My wife's receiving
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  communications saying that she she owed all this money for
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  Centrelink because we had. Children and obviously because
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  of these payments that the government had made for like
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  parenting allowances, the issue that we had was we'd never, you
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  know, our children were quite a bit older.
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  We didn't my my wife was working, I was working.
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  We didn't receive payments from the governments.
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  We hadn't for quite a long period of time since they were
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  really little and it will be chased for.
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  Thousands of dollars. Thousands of dollars.
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  I think it was something like 7000, something like that.
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  And it it didn't make sense. The argument for this money that
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  we supposedly owed didn't make sense and it was.
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  It's pretty stressful when you know, you're getting told the
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  government and it wasn't, you know, it wasn't some fraudulent
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  activity. It was the Australian government
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  coming along and saying, ringing you, sending emails saying, hey.
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  You owe us all this money. We're going to take legal
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  action. You need to pay.
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  You need to pay up. And then all these years later,
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  we find out, Oh my bad, it was all unlawful, what we were
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  doing. So this headline that comes out
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  from it's the The New Daily. Scott Morrison rejects findings
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  he misled the government during robo debt inception.
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  Scott Morrison. Seriously, he.
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  Like I said, I don't have a lot of respect for the man.
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  I'll go through this little bit. Former Prime Minister Scott
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  Morrison has rejected completely findings that he misled cabinet
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  on the legality of the robo debt scheme following the release of
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  the Royal Commission's Royal Commission's final report.
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  The report states that Mister Morrison, who was social
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  services minister from May 2014 until September 2015, allowed
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  cabinet to be misled but not inquiring why, the department
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  ignored its own suggestion from 2015 that using and averaging of
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  income required legislation to be introduced.
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  Look, I just want to go down to what SCOMO?
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  Scomo said. So you know your statement,
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  Morrison said He rejected completely, just not puts his
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  hand up. Step off rejected completely.
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  Each of the findings, which are critical to my involvement in
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  authoring, authorizing the scheme and are adverse to me, to
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  him, just rejects it. If it's adverse to me, I reject
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  it. They are wrong, unsubstantiated
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  and contradicted by clear documentary evidence presented
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  to the Commission, he said. Goes on to say I acted in good
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  faith and on clear and deliberate department advice,
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  OK, this I cannot stand this about the government
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  departments, about government workers, you know, anywhere from
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  the police upwards. They all use this term, reacted
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  in good faith. The problem is quite often they
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  will go out and completely destroy, drag people through the
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  mud, destroy lives and then they'll stand up.
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  They have the audacity to stand up and say I acted in good
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  faith. We hear police officers use that
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  all the time. We acted in good faith.
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  The commissioner here in Queensland says that she loves
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  to pull that statement out, acted in good faith if you have
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  gone and. Just destroyed someone's life,
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  someone's livelihood. You've pulled them through the
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  mud, and it's all been unlawful. You cannot stand behind this,
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  this defense of acting in good faith.
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  Just frustrating. So he says, yeah, acted in good
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  faith. Deliberate.
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  Acted in good faith and unclear and deliberate department advice
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  that no legislation was required to introduce the scheme, and
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  presented comprehensive evidence to support this position.
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  He also rejected that he pressured anyone into believing
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  the scheme did not need legislation, describing it as an
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  offense and baseless assertion. Here's the problem, old SCOMO.
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  Prime Minister's former Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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  It was caught out lying so many times while he was Prime
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  Minister. Just just one, just one.
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  One falsehood I clearly remember and it was to do with the
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  coronavirus, the the Charlie Victor mandates that were coming
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  out scomer was telling everyone, the governments.
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  Would not make it mandatory. He would not make it.
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  They would not make it mandatory to receive the to receive the
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  vaccine and continue working. The issue was, and he would
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  always say, he'd say things like this and he'd have this stupid
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  little smirk on his face while he was saying it because he knew
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  he was lying. The problem was.
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  Is that manipulation of truth? He knew very well.
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  It was already in the works that big business that businesses
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  would bring in this, these rules themselves and also that state
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  government. But he would use the phrasing
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  well, you know, the federal government's not not going to do
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  that. They are not going to make it.
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  The federal government's not going to make it mandatory.
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  But at the same time, he's Panther on fire because he knew
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  very well. That business and state
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  governments would bring in the rules, would bring in the
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  legislation, that you could not go to work unless you were
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  vaccinated. There's a plethora of other
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  lies, just blatant lies that he told.
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  You know, the man cannot be trusted.
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  The audacity of him to stand up and say I just reject all
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  findings, anything against me, despicable.
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  Now with these, with this royal Commission, there are they have
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  actually had criminal referrals. But the issue is again talk
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  about covering up. There's always this, there's
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  always this, you know, the upper echelon of society, it feels
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  like they are protected. So we we've got all this, all
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  these findings, but they've got a sealed section, so sealed.
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  Referrals of individuals for civil and criminal prosecution
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  means the complete picture still isn't clear in the report.
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  Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes said she recommended the
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  referrals not be publicly released so as not to prejudice
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  the the conduct of any future civil actions or criminal
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  prosecution. Robodets involved process of
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  data matching. I won't get through all of that.
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  But the issue is they've got this seal section.
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  They need to just make everything.
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  I I get why they're saying it, because it's, you know, because
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  of because of prejudicing future civil actions or criminal
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  prosecutions. But there needs to be a
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  definitive time limit to how long you can have this seal
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  section in. And hopefully it's only no more
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  than 12 months. They need to get this underway.
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  If they're going to pursue criminal, criminal action, it
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  needs to be done. The Australian public need to
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  know hopefully Scomo was held accountable and he cannot just
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  stand up and put his hand up and say no.
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  I reject all findings. Hopefully he is pushed along, he
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  is, he is prosecuted. That's my own hope because like
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  I said, the man is a liar, cannot be trusted.
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  We cause so much harm to so many, so many Australians.
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  It's despicable. Anyway, that's all just my
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  opinion. Let me know what you think.
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  Were you affected by this Rover debt scheme?
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  Let me know. Thanks for listening to the
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  slippery slope.