{"id":31437,"date":"2025-02-18T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31437"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:04:44","slug":"media-releasenacc-will-finally-investigate-robodebt-it-should-never-have-taken-this-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/media-releasenacc-will-finally-investigate-robodebt-it-should-never-have-taken-this-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Release:NACC will finally investigate Robodebt. It should never have taken this long"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today the NACC has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacc.gov.au\/news-and-media\/national-anti-corruption-commission-investigate-robodebt-referrals\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;it will finally investigate the 6 referrals it received from the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change in position comes following the independent reconsideration by Mr Geoffrey Nettle AC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens Senator for NSW and Justice Spokesperson said:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the rapid fair and unbiased decision by Geoffrey Nettle KC to instigate a corruption investigation of the Robodebt scandal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a chance for justice for the thousands of people across the country whose lives and families were shattered by Robodebt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement is a clear rejection of NACC\u2019s previous decision, in which Commissioner Brereton was deeply involved, to ignore this scandal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere have now been two senior independent reviews that amount to public repudiations of the direction of the NACC under Commissioner Brereton\u2019s leadership.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens join with millions across the country who demand a National Anti Corruption Commission that they can trust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis trust is undermined by the continued presence of Commissioner Brereton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the NACC has&nbsp;announced&nbsp;it will finally investigate the 6 referrals it received from the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme. The change in position comes following the independent reconsideration by Mr Geoffrey Nettle AC.&nbsp; Greens Senator for NSW and Justice Spokesperson said:&nbsp; \u201cWe welcome the rapid fair and unbiased decision by Geoffrey Nettle KC to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/media-releasenacc-will-finally-investigate-robodebt-it-should-never-have-taken-this-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Media Release:NACC will finally investigate Robodebt. It should never have taken this long&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31438,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31437\/revisions\/31438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}