Senior public servant Kathryn Campbell suspended without pay after robodebt findings
- Kathryn Campbell, a high-ranking advisor on the AUKUS security and defense pact, has been suspended without pay following findings from the robodebt inquiry. She was previously the head of the Department of Human Services during the controversial debt recovery program.
- The robodebt scheme, which ran from 2015 to 2019, raised $1.73 billion in unlawful debts against over 400,000 individuals. The scheme was called a "crude and cruel mechanism" by the royal commission report and resulted in civil and criminal prosecution referrals.
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Senior public servant suspended after robodebt findings
Kathryn Campbell, the public servant who oversaw the robodebt scheme, has been stood down from her role at Defence. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS) By Andrew Brown in Canberra A SENIOR public servant who oversaw the unlawful robodebt scheme has been stood down from her position at the Department of Defence following the royal commission findings. Kathryn Campbell, who was previously the head of the Department of Human Services, has been involuntarily st…
Senior bureaucrat suspended without pay after robodebt report findings
A senior bureaucrat has been suspended without pay following the scathing royal commission report into the robodebt scheme.Kathryn Campbell was suspended from her high-ranking role as an advisor on AUKUS - the trilateral security and defence pact between Australia, the UK and US - after findings from the robodebt inquiry.Last year, Campbell was appointed as an advisor on the nuclear submarine deal on a salary of $900,000 annually.READ MORE: Thr…
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