Author and journalist Rick Morton would willingly trade his newly minted Prime Minister’s Literary award for a taste of justice in the long-running robo-debt scandal, the four-year saga of maladministration that is the very subject of his award-winning non-fiction work.

It irks him that the federal government’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is still investigating officials associated with the discredited welfare debt recovery scheme two years since a royal commission slammed it as unlawful, cruel and a failure of public service accountability.

“I’d give it away in a second if people were held properly accountable. I didn’t think I was a vengeful god but robo-debt turned me into a vengeful god, and so far there has not been a repercussion in sight.

“Some of the people resp

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