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A public servant who claimed he was sacked for raising concerns about the federal government’s flawed “robo-debt” program has lost an unfair dismissal case, with the Fair Work Commission finding he was let go for making unsubstantiated bullying complaints.
Nandana Gunawardana worked for Services Australia, the government department that administered robo-debt, from 2002 until he was sacked from his job as a compliance support officer in July 2020.
The government’s “robo-debt” scheme wrongly claimed hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients owed money to the government.
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From at least 2018 he repeatedly raised concerns about the robo-debt scheme, which used a faulty method to claim some of the country’s poorest people owed welfare debts to the government.
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