Former High Court of Australia judge Geoffrey Nettle, after being appointed by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to review the Robodebt corruption evidence, told the NACC “that each of the 6 referrals raises a corruption issue”.

What we know is one of “6 referrals” that “raises a corruption issue” is former Prime Minister Scott Morrison and another is NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton’s good friend Kathryn Campbell.

The reason Geoffrey Nettle was hired to review the Robodebt corruption evidence is because NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton was exposed last year trying to sweep the 6 Robodebt referrals under the carpet to protect his mate Kathryn Campbell.

The cover-up of the cover-up

It’s worth noting at this point there was a cover-up of the cover-up.

Gail Furness, Inspector of the NACC, hired Alan Robertson to conduct an investigation into the Paul Brereton / Robodebt cover-up and Furness handed down a pre-determined judgement to protect NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton with the weakest possible guilty finding.

I published an article in November 2024 titled “NACC Inspector Gail Furness muzzled former judge Alan Robertson to protect Paul Brereton and others from criminal charges” which starts off:

Gail Furness, Inspector of the NACC, published a pre-determined judgment last week to protect NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton, the NACC Deputy Commissioners and other NACC staff from criminal charges of knowingly abusing their positions to protect Brereton’s friend Kathryn Campbell.

What Gail Furness has done is a crime in itself as she is guilty of trying to conceal the serious indictable offences committed by Paul Brereton and the others.

Former Federal Court of Australia judge Alan Robertson also has a lot of questions he needs to answer given he aided and abetted Gail Furness.

and:

Gail Furness limited Alan Robertson’s investigation to only Paul Brereton’s conduct. What about the others? Why were they protected?

The second key piece of evidence is there is no reasoning given why they found Paul Brereton’s conduct “is not unlawful” and a “mistake in law or fact” instead of more serious findings such as “is unlawful conduct”. (Click here to read more)

If Gail Furness, Inspector of the NACC, had done her job properly it is highly likely the Robodebt cover-up would have stopped, and Commissioner Paul Brereton and others would have faced criminal charges for the cover-up. 

Latest Robodebt scandal:

Someone senior at the NACC decided to edit the February 2025 Robodebt media release and delete the part about Geoffrey Nettle deciding “that each of the 6 referrals raises a corruption issue”. This was exposed by a FOI request by Senator David Shoebridge.

It is not a one-off issue, and I have lost count how many times the NACC and its staff have been caught covering-up key information about the Robodebt scandal, although a conservative estimate would be at least 20 times which makes it a massive cover-up.

Below is a video of this article:

(Click here to watch the above video on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel)

Senator David Shoebridge’s FOI investigation

Senator David Shoebridge posted on “X” (formerly Twitter) on the 11th of August 2025:

Documents forced out of the NACC by my office under FOI show the Commission has been actively concealing critical information about its Robodebt investigation from the Australian public.

FOI docs obtained by my office reveal Justice Geoffrey Nettle found that each of the six Robodebt referrals “raises a corruption issue” but the NACC deliberately hid these findings from their public statement. How do we know this? We FOI’d their draft media release.

The draft media release shows someone at the NACC (possibly Commissioner Brereton) edited out Justice Nettle’s critical corruption conclusions. The integrity body is STILL trying to hide the truth.

The NACC continues to privilege the powerful at the expense of Australians harmed by Robodebt. This must end. (Click here to see the post on X)

Below are the 2 FOI docs that show the editing of the media release:

The key part above, that was deleted by the NACC, is where it says at the end of paragraph 3:

“Mr Nettle has decided that each of the 6 referrals raises a corruption issue and that all 6 referrals should progress to corruption investigations under the National Anti Corruption Commission Act 2022 (Cth)”.

The final press release said in the same paragraph:

“Consistent with its usual practice, the Commission does not publish reasons for commencing an investigation, as doing so may prejudice the investigations, disclose information which the Commission is required by law to keep confidential, compromise investigative pathways and/or unfairly impact reputations and rights of individuals to impartial adjudication.” (Click here to see the full final press release issued by the NACC on the 18/2/25.)

Why did they delete, “Mr Nettle has decided that each of the 6 referrals raises a corruption issue and that all 6 referrals should progress to corruption investigations under the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 (Cth)”?

The answer is obvious, the Robodebt cover-up is still in full swing, and NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton is still overseeing the cover-up with the support of the federal government.

What is the NACC doing with the Robodebt inquiry? Not much it seems. The NACC also said in their press release in February 2025:

“The Commission is now making arrangements to ensure the impartial and fair investigation of the referrals, as it did with the appointment of Mr Nettle as independent reconsideration delegate.”

“The Commissioner and those Deputy Commissioners who were involved in the original decision not to investigate the referrals, will not participate in the investigation.” (Click here to see the full final press release issued by the NACC on the 18/2/25.)

The NACC’s Robodebt inquiry is at a point that if Scott Morrison, or the other 5 referrals, were held to account it would be very embarrassing not only for Commissioner Paul Brereton and the NACC, but also for the federal government.

So, the NACC and federal government want it covered up and that is what they are in the process of doing.

But the good news is, the evidence of the cover-up is a mile long and the longer the NACC and government persist with the cover-up the more damage it does to their credibility.

I don’t think any voters realised in 2022, and not many in 2025, when they voted for Labor that Labor would set up a NACC to protect Scott Morrison and others. But they will all know before the 2028 federal election.

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