{"id":178823,"date":"2025-09-30T00:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178823\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:55:12","slug":"book-detailing-robodebt-scheme-wins-top-literary-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/178823\/","title":{"rendered":"Book detailing Robodebt scheme wins top literary prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Robodebt scheme saw close to 500,000 Australian welfare recipients illegally pursued over debts they didn&#8217;t owe Resulting in the suicides of at least two individuals &#8211; and a potential compensation settlement of some $475 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, a book that detailed the scandal, Mean Streak, won the top non-fiction prize at the 2025 Prime Minister&#8217;s Literary Award.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Rick Morton, author of Mean StreakProducer: Grace Stranger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Robodebt scheme saw close to 500,000 Australian welfare recipients illegally pursued over debts they didn&#8217;t owe Resulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134,114766,114765,115337],"class_list":["post-178823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-mean-streak","tag-rick-morton","tag-rick-morton-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}