Miller told the court âthe only things Iâve ever had are platitudes, Iâve been shown no respectâ and that she was objecting to the settlement because the government had not been held accountable.
âIâm pleased that people are getting paid back, but it is illegal and we have had so many people suffer,â she said.
The class action, initially on behalf of about 600,000 people, was whittled down to about 400,000 when Gordon Legal and the government reached a deal on the first day of a trial in November last year.
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Analysis: For the hundreds of thousands of Australians impacted by the government s Centrelink robodebt scheme, the year appears to have ended not with a bang but a whimper.
As we rolled into 2020, robodebt victims were hopeful.
Gordon Legal s huge class action lawsuit - representing some 600,000 Australians who had been saddled with unlawful debts - was gathering pace.
Lawyers at the Melbourne firm had every reason to be confident of a significant win.
After all, the Federal Court had already found in November last year a key component of the debt recovery scheme â its use of tax office income averaging â had no basis in law.