Former social services minister and PM tells parliament royal commissioner Catherine Holmes’s findings were ‘unfounded and wrong’
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Scott Morrison has accused the robodebt royal commission of “unfairly and retroactively” applying a consensus the debt recovery program was unlawful, while telling parliament Labor was pursuing a campaign of “political lynching” against him.
On Monday the former prime minister made a personal statement to a near empty lower house of parliament rejecting the commission’s central findings as “unfounded and wrong”.
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