Since 2015, the Australian government has raised an estimated $2.1 bn in debt from Centrelink clients in a manner which the Federal Court has since ruled unlawful.
Known as the Robodebt scandal, the scheme affected more than 400,000 Australians, including some of the nation's most vulnerable people. Inspired by real cases, Brooke Robinson's 'Bad Machine' is a fictionalised look at the human cost of aan inhuman system, and our vanishing social safety net.

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