The Australian government’s senior bureaucrats have parachuted a former top public servant who was a key figure in the illegal debt recovery scheme Robodebt into a new job that comes with a $ 900,000-a-year salary.
Top politicians managed to appoint Kathryn Campbell, former secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trades (DFAT), as an advisor for the AUKUS program before she was dumped from her previous role.
She played a key role in the Robodebt scheme, an unlawful method of automated debt assessment and recovery introduced in January 2017 and employed by the Australian government agency Services Australia.
Campbell received heavy criticism when she controversially denied that people had died as a result of the unlawful scheme during a senate hearing in 2020….