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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government wants to make welfare debt recovery better and says Labor is exaggerating the extent of the complaints against the system. Mr Morrison has defended the controversial robodebt scheme after a class action lawyer announced he was investigating if it's unlawful. Praba Maheswaran has the story in Tamil, written by Greg Dyett for SBS News.


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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government wants to make welfare debt recovery better and says Labor is exaggerating the extent of the complaints against the system. Mr Morrison has defended the controversial robodebt scheme after a class action lawyer announced he was investigating if it's unlawful. Praba Maheswaran has the story in Tamil, written by Greg Dyett for SBS News.



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