The Commissioner for the robo-debt hearings quietly wrote to the attorney general, delaying the publication of the royal commission’s final report. But this is no mere bureaucratic hold-up, there are other reasons behind it. And one of them has to do with when Australia’s new National Anti-Corruption Commission will be ready to receive referrals.

Today, senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton on how robo-debt could become one of the first topics for the brand new integrity watchdog.