A former Centrelink client from Wagga has backed a royal commission into the ‘robodebt’ system due to the mental health harm she and others experienced after being wrongly told they owed thousands of dollars. Danielle George, who currently works at a supermarket, said she went down into a “spiral” when she was wrongly accused of owing $40,000 back to the welfare agency. “A lot of people were suicidal and going back to that time – I already suffer from bipolar and anxiety and depression – I recall it did put me into a spin and could have led to one of my breakdowns,” she said. “When I look back I think maybe that’s why I did spiral at one point.” Federal Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese has called for a royal commission into th…
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