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Former mid-level official Kristin Lumley says she believed there was ‘inaction’ from her boss and it would ‘end up in federal court’
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A former Department of Social Services official accused one of her bosses of “sitting on” damning external legal advice, a royal commission has been told.
The commission is examining why and how the unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in 2015 and ran until November 2019, ending in a $1.8bn settlement with hundreds of thousands of victims.
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