Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, WINNER of the Walkley Book Award 2025
A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, WINNER of the Prime Minister's Literary Award 2025
$33.32
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2024
Summary
Robodebt was a new debt creation system, in which close to half a million Australian welfare recipients were illegally pursued over fake debts generated by the thousands. It was described by the Royal Commission’s report as a ‘massive failure of public administration’ caused by ‘venality, incompetence and cowardice’. Essentially, Australians were gaslit by their own government. From ministers to public servants, officials doggedly and knowingly concocted a program that was both mathematically…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460765807 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 146076580X |
| Author: | Rick Morton |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 529g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 34mm |
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A crack storyteller … his words and stories are infused with genuine compassion’ Christos Tsiolkas
‘Morton is an intelligent, funny, endearing writer’ Australian Book Review
‘Morton is fresh … He’s brilliant.’ The Monthly
‘Wonderfully readable … Morton is a national treasure’ Books+Publishing
About The Author
Rick Morton
Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and writer.
His first book, One Hundred Years of Dirt, was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the 2019 National Biography Award. It was longlisted for the 2018 Walkley Book of the Year and for both Biography of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the 2019 ABIA Awards.
His second book was the critically acclaimed My Year of Living Vulnerably (2021).
His third book, Mean Streak, won the 2025 Walkley Book Award, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2025, and the People’s Choice Prize Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2025. It was also shortlisted for the ABIA Social Impact Book of the Year 2025 and the Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2025.
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