ALT ROBODEBT WAS A MOMENT WHEN A LABOR GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE MADE CHANGE. INSTEAD THEY’VE DOUBLED DOWN ON A SYSTEM WHICH REWARDS PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT PROVIDERS WITH PURSUING ‘BEST PRACTICE’ IN COERCION OF THE UNEMPLOYED. Throwing good money after bad is what you do when you cannot admit the original investment was wrong. Thirty years of public money, thirty years of harm, thirty years of reforms and the system that produced all three still has proven impervious to change. Why? Between 2022 and 2025, Labor had everything it needed to fix Australia’s employment services. A royal commission had just exposed Robodebt as an unlawful debt recovery scheme that had driven people to their deaths. Labor had won government. A parliamentary inquiry had spent eighteen months documenting what needed to change and how. The conditions for reform were as good as they get.