Mean Streak
a moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, shortlisted for the abia social impact book of the year 2025
$32.39
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2024
Summary
Mean Streak: The Robodebt Scandal
Robodebt was a debt creation system that illegally pursued almost half a million Australian welfare recipients over fabricated debts. The Royal Commission described it 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 knowingly concocted an illegal and mathematically flawed program to extr…
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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Critics Review
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 the author of four non-fiction books, including the critically-acclaimed bestseller One Hundred Years of Dirt which was long listed for the Walkley Book of the Year 2018 and shortlisted for the National Biography Award (NBA) 2019. He has since been a three-time judge of the NBA. Rick is the senior reporter with The Saturday Paper and two times Walkley Award winner for his coverage of the Robodebt Royal Commission. He documented this saga in his latest work Mean Streak, a book about the illegal and fake debt trap set by the Australian government, bureaucratic harm and the fight to put people back into policy. He lives in Queensland.
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