9781460717448

Mean Streak

The book cover for Mean Streak by Rick Morton has the tagline 'A moral vacuum & multi-billion dollar government fraud'. The image is made up of a series of blocks stacked on top of each other of decreasing height as they go upwards. There are ladders to go from one level to the next with the bottom being very high. There are people climbing the ladders or standing on the various levels. The book and author's name are shown on the side of the blocks.

It includes the notation 'Bestselling author of One Hundred Years of Dirt'

Robodebt was a new debt-creation system that was used to illegally pursue close to half a million Australian welfare recipients for fake debts generated by the thousands. It was described by the Royal Commission's report as a 'massive failure of public administration' caused by 'venality,...Read more