NACC shouldn’t exist if it’s going to dog its remit by ignoring robodebt

It took the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) a year to decide to do nothing, and a few hours to realise it had a public relations disaster on its hands.

What followed was what the victims of robodebt — and every other citizen invested in the idea that we might one day see some justice emerge from the worst scandal of corrupt governance in Australia’s history — could only have read as deliberate gaslighting:

“We understand that our decision not to pursue the referrals from the robodebt royal commission will be difficult for victims, their families and friends.