‘Thousands’ of Public Servants to Replace Robodebt: Shorten

Questions remain over whether the government will implement disciplinary action against those responsible for Robodebt.

Labor MP Bill Shorten puts a question to the Government during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Nov. 25, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Minister Bill Shorten has vowed to put the “human” back into government services amid a hiring spree to bolster public servant ranks in the wake of the Robodebt inquiry.

“What we’re doing is putting the ‘human’ back into human services—literally 1,000s of ongoing public servant positions have been created,” Mr. Shorten said.