There is a dreadful calculation that can be made from the figures in that article.
People whose benefits were cancelled:
1280 + 964 = 2244
Deaths discovered: 10
Deaths of 0.4456%
Total number of people directly targeted by #RoboDebt: 433,000
Rumoured number of deaths: 2000
Rumoured death figure as a percentage: 0.4619%
The similarity between 0.4456 and 0.4618 gives me confidence in the figure of ~2000 dead for RoboDebt.
Numbers do not include family and dependents impacted.
@sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social
" adopting the four Cs of curiosity, contestability, collaboration and courage — as a sound decision-making framework.
“[This approach] will always ensure the robust and innovative thinking necessary in this important portfolio,” [Minister Bill] Shorten said. "
Pretty words.
#HowManyDied Bill?
Let's see if the 4Cs work.
But also legislate illegal schemes, gross and deliberate maladministration resulting in multiple deaths, as #IndustrialManslaughter.
I want to know #HowManyDied.
I see 10 deaths occured in a far smaller group of CentreLink dependents who'd wrongfully had their benefits cut off.
(This may be #BureaucraticManslaughter. The government kept it a secret too.)
Can you imagine the effects on your mental health of being a #APS #PublicServant and having to cut vulnerable folk's finanances off? And if you knew it was because the system was broken?
I see it as taking up the space in which a large online knowledge collection and presentation project, that trains its volunteers to behave civilly and humanely and to stand against bullying and abuse, could exist.
As I ask in the OP, "How many lives has Wikipedia destroyed?"
Is this the I'm reading this as the first sledge-hammer level change in the public service that would act to prevent future #RoboDebt-like illegal actions by the #AustralianGovernment.
Show me what I've missed.
I'm not counting the $3000 fine that could be applied to Australian public servants who refuse to give evidence.
AIU that' s around $1.50 for each RoboDebt death. FU #MarkDreyfus.
And, AIUI, they could just quit and avoid the fine entirely.
A $3000 fine - let's see, death toll of RoboDebt remains secret, but 2000 has been estimated.
If so the fine would be about $1.50 for each RoboDebt triggered death.
As an excercise in supposedly recreating confidence in government, this insulting stuff from #MarkDreyfus is a garbage fail.
What changes in the Australian Public Service have been made to help public servants report and get appropriate support if they find they're faced with departmental actions that are, unreasonably, harming people and triggering suicides?
A social worker testified to the Royal Commission that Centrelink compliance officers took a "So sad. Too bad.", approach.
Clearly this was grossly inadequate.
What changes have been made?
#RoboDebt
#HowManyDied
#APS #AustralianPublicService
#Centrelink
Signed.
Without #RoboDebt being properly and fully addressed what have we got?
A corrupt cover-up government that lets the deaths of thousands be swept under the carpet?
The boys and girls club of senior #APS Australian public servants amazes.
Findings against one, who gets a job as vice chancellor at a university and a friend gets a defence of them published in the #SaturdayPaper.
#RoboDebt
#HowManyDied?
#SocialPariah
#AusPol
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