Federal government has shown its true colours with JobKeeper

By Letters to the Editor
March 27 2021 - 5:30am
Readers are angry over the difference in the way JobKeeper payments and Centrelink benefit overpayments are treated. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Readers are angry over the difference in the way JobKeeper payments and Centrelink benefit overpayments are treated. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

The federal government has shown its true colours in regard to its attitude to the Australian people. On the one hand it used a computer algorithm to develop "robodebt" which was directly aimed at the most vulnerable and marginalised people in our society, to force them to pay back money which the government said they owed, due to overpayment of their benefits.

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