Q. As you may be aware, some of the people who received notifications had not actually been overpaid, but paid the money required in the notification. The government recently announced that it would be repaying $721 million back to people who paid Centrelink debts they may never have owed.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about the ‘Robodebt’ program?
| NET: Agree | NET: Disagree | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Neither agree, nor disagree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | |
| The Government should apologise to those negatively impacted by the ‘Robodebt’ program | 74% | 11% | 46% | 28% | 14% | 7% | 5% |
| People who repaid money they didn’t actually owe should be given interest and damages | 66% | 13% | 36% | 30% | 20% | 8% | 5% |
| There should be a Royal Commission to investigate the failings of the ‘Robodebt’ program | 55% | 23% | 28% | 27% | 22% | 13% | 11% |
| Even if it was poorly implemented, the use of automated notifications was a good idea | 32% | 43% | 8% | 24% | 25% | 18% | 25% |
| NET: Agree | Total | Federal Voting Intention | |||
| Labor | Coalition | Greens | TOTAL: Other | ||
| The Government should apologise to those negatively impacted by the ‘Robodebt’ program | 74% | 79% | 69% | 76% | 81% |
| People who repaid money they didn’t actually owe should be given interest and damages | 66% | 71% | 60% | 71% | 74% |
| There should be a Royal commission to investigate the failings of the ‘Robodebt’ program | 55% | 64% | 45% | 60% | 53% |
| Even if it was poorly implemented, the use of automated notifications was a good idea | 32% | 28% | 43% | 26% | 24% |
| Base (n) | 922 | 289 | 376 | 80 | 113 |