Two former federal departmental heads breached public service code 25 times in Robodebt scandal

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Two former federal departmental secretaries and another ten bureaucrats involved in the Robodebt scandal have been found to have breached the Public Service Code of Conduct a total of 97 times.

Kathryn Campbell and Renée Leon breached the code when they when they served as secretary of the then department of human services. Campbell committed 12 breaches, and Leon 13.

Both are no longer in the public service and so face no penalty. Leon is vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University.

A royal commission into Robodebt was damning of ministers and public servants…

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