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Defence minister Richard Marles expected to outline plan to project power into Pacific
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news blog. My name is Martin Farrer and I’ll be sharing our top stories with you before my colleague Emily Wind takes over.
The Australian Tax Office has been widely panned for pursuing historic debts in a scheme nicknamed “robotax”. But in an exclusive report this morning, we reveal how, far from provoking a rethink, officials are expanding the scope of the plan. The scheme resurrects decades-old debts worth more than $15bn, despite rising numbers of complaints, transparency concerns and at least one systems error resulting in miscalculations.
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