Hmmmm, dunno about that. It took years to bring Robodebt down, despite lots of 'bad press'. Aussies are notoriously apathetic about things that don't affect them personally.
When the first Federal Court claim was brought by a victim, the alleged 'debt' was magicked away, rendering the proceedings to have no utility. Typical trick of the bureaucracy. But the second Federal Court claim finally brought things to a head. In the mean time, AAT decisions against the bureaucracy, on the basis that the averaging methodology was not a valid way on which to 'raise' a 'debt', were waved away by the bureaucracy on the basis that each AAT decision was applicable only to its specific facts.
A while ago I watched bureaucrats in front of a Senate Committee say, with a straight face, that an AAT decision in favour of Senator Rex Patrick, to the effect that the 'National Cabinet' is not a Cabinet of the Commonwealth executive and, therefore, its records are not exempt from FOI access on the ground of 'Cabinet in Confidence' claims, was a decision unique to the circumstances. The bureaucracy continued to claim 'Cabinet in Confidence' over the records of the 'National Cabinet'.
These people have no shame. Some headlines are like water off a duck's back.