{"id":51062,"date":"2025-09-30T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51062\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:33:08","slug":"book-detailing-robodebt-scheme-wins-top-literary-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51062\/","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":51063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,43566,111,139,69,43565,44109],"class_list":["post-51062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-mean-streak","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rick-morton","tag-rick-morton-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}