1. ALP didn’t promise to end robodebt pre-election defeat July 2019. They promised to continue robodebt but build a centre for algorithmic fairness.
2. Amato v Commonwealth was the case which ruled DHS data averaging unlawful. Run by @viclegal aid, not a class action https://twitter.com/deemadigan/status/1266328390455328768

3. Shorten didn’t get on board with any public support to end robodebt until @viclegalaid already had two cases at the High Court.
4. Shorten endorsed data matching and tax garnishing in 2011

5. Kathryn Campbell, the bureaucrat who instituted the robodebt program under the Coalition was appointed by @AustralianLabor’s PM Gillard to be secretary of DHS

6. Next time I beg the ALP to work with civil society, get off your fucking asses. Listen to your senators and MPs who weren’t afraid to speak up despite your crappy cop out policies: ALP’s @LindaBurneyMP @MurrayWatt @DougCameron51 all spoke up. Why didn’t the rest of you?

7. You look awful trying to snatch some undeserved claim to glory from grassroots activists like @not_my_debt. Find a better game because this makes you look really *bad*

8. I think the most damning thing is that when the ALP instituted data matching laws in 2010/11 - long before robodebt was created by the LNP - they didn’t put in place checks & balances and oversight on automation of governance. They handed those tools of destruction to the LNP