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Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt from the award winning author of One Hundred Years of Dirt Audiobook, by Rick Morton Play Audiobook Sample

Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt from the award winning author of One Hundred Years of Dirt Audiobook

Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt from the award winning author of One Hundred Years of Dirt Audiobook, by Rick Morton Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Rick Morton, Tamblyn Lord Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781460739471

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

39

Longest Chapter Length:

57:54 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

23:56 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, the gripping, utterly compelling and horrifying story of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens.



Robodebt was the automated debt recovery system, in which close to half a million Australian welfare recipients were illegally pursued over false debts. It was described by the Royal Commission's report as a 'massive failure of public administration' caused by 'venality, incompetence and cowardice'. Essentially, Australia was gaslit by its own government. They backed something that was illegal, shook down innocent people for money, then lied about it for four and a half years.

In the tradition of Chloe Hooper (The Tall Man) and Helen Garner (This House of Grief and Joe Cinque's Consolation), Rick Morton tells a powerful and emotionally compelling story of one of the most shocking, large-scale failures of the Australian government, a historic and appalling political tragedy, which clearly displayed the wide-reaching and systematic contempt that a government had for its most vulnerable citizens.

Powerfully moving, deeply compelling and utterly enraging, Mean Streak reveals disturbing things about the country we have become and the government that was. In the mode of a corporate thriller, this is a scouring cautionary tale of morality in public life gone badly awry - a story that is bigger than robodebt, and far from over.

Praise for Rick Morton:

'A crack storyteller ... his words and stories are infused with genuine compassion' Christos Tsiolkas

'Morton is an intelligent, funny, endearing writer' Australian Book Review

'Morton is fresh ... He's brilliant.' The Monthly

'Wonderfully readable ... Morton is a national treasure' Books+Publishing

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