The principal victim in an illegal Centrelink scheme has finally had a chance to be head, after years of suffering in silence.<\/p>\n
55 year-old Sydney man Scott Morrison was filled with emotion as he told a sitting of Federal Parliament that he had been unfairly targeted by the Government, leading to stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been held responsible for something which, apart from being in charge of the relevant ministry at the time, I had nothing to do with. I was given no opportunity to see the evidence put against me, or afforded the assumption of innocence, apart from during a 46-day Royal Commission. And, other than being the head of the Government, I was utterly powerless \u2013 I had no way of getting my voice heard. It has been an incredibly stressful time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Morrison said throughout the Robodebt scandal he had felt alone and powerless, with only the world\u2019s largest media organisation to speak on his behalf. \u201cThere were times when it was too overwhelming. Those days when you realise it\u2019s just you, forty News Corp columnists, the Department of Human Services and the Federal Government, up against the might of Australia\u2019s unemployed. I hope I never have to go through something like that again\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt’s overwhelming when you realise it\u2019s just you, forty News Corp columnists, the Department of Human Services and the Federal Government, up against the might of Australia\u2019s unemployed”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[922],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n