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"If
the government actually though that calling it robodebt caused more anxiety, they'd have named it that themselves" [@RichardAOB,
4 October 2019]
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The Guardian, 4 October 2019:
The
Coalition’s controversial debt recovery scheme should not be called
robodebt, Liberal MPs say, in part because the phrase is causing
anxiety in the community.
A
day after the Liberal senator Matt O’Sullivan told the first
hearing of a Senate inquiry into the scheme “robodebt” was a
“misnomer”, his colleague, Hollie Hughes, admonished
representatives from Western Australia’s community legal centres
for using the term.
Hughes
also told the inquiry on Friday the term robodebt was “a bit of a
misnomer, particularly under the current system”.
“And
I think using that term is probably creating a bit more anxiety than
is required,” Hughes said. “If we’re trying to reduce the
anxiety around this, probably not using that term particularly in
these sorts of settings would be helpful.”
Despite
noting improvements to the program, including increased involvement
from Centrelink staff and outreach to affected welfare recipients,
the WA legal centres said on Friday that the scheme was still having
an adverse impact on vulnerable people.
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"I actually agree with the politicians saying that ‘robodebt’ is a
misnomer... it implies there was actually a debt in the first
instance. Maybe ‘robotheft’, ‘robowehatepoorpeople’ or
‘robofuckyou’ would be more appropriate?” [@LukeLPearson,
4 October 2019]
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