There is a lengthy checklist of former ministers who must be made to reply for his or her actions, and a good longer checklist of bureaucrats.
Here is a brief, non-exclusive checklist of people that ought to be witnesses on the robodebt royal fee:
- Former social companies ministers Scott Morrison, Christian Porter, Dan Tehan, Paul Fletcher and Anne Ruston
- Former human companies ministers Stuart Robert, Alan Tudge and Michael Keenan
- Tudge’s chief of workers Andrew Asten, together with each chief of workers of each former minister within the two portfolios
- Former Human Providers secretary Kathryn Campbell. And an in depth checklist of the bureaucrats who labored below her within the implementation of the robodebt scheme and the Coalition’s makes an attempt to defend it: Jonathan Hutson, Annette Musolino, Hank Jongen, Anthony Seebach, Jason McNamara — and that is just the start.
They will discover giving proof at a royal fee slightly totally different from ducking and weaving at an estimates listening to or Senate committee inquiry. They will discover “I am going to take that on discover” will not fly. They will discover counsel helping will preserve at them with out a minister or authorities senators with the ability to run interference. They will discover the royal fee has a mountain of paperwork to scrutinise every part they are saying.
As for the previous ministers, they’re going to discover it’s extremely totally different from query time or a media convention. And their former staffers will probably be compelled to face one thing they’ve by no means skilled: public accountability.
