I took it as your response to the article that Greg posted without comment (you replied to it, rather than someone casting aspersions). I'm not sure you realise it but you are defending his actions by 'playing the man and not the ball'. A mistake Brereton himself appears to have made. - ThreadSky

hingehead.bsky.social • 103 days ago

I took it as your response to the article that Greg posted without comment (you replied to it, rather than someone casting aspersions). I'm not sure you realise it but you are defending his actions by 'playing the man and not the ball'. A mistake Brereton himself appears to have made.

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jenduncan.bsky.social•103 days ago

That’s a misreading of my post, I believe. And I do defend the man to the extent that he’s been required to resolve some extraordinarily complex and competing priorities. I don’t envy him the challenge, nor the burden of making those decisions.

jenduncan.bsky.social•103 days ago

PS so many were casting aspersions that singling out one seemed unfair.

hingehead.bsky.social•103 days ago

I have nothing against him personally but I think he’s made several errors of judgement in this case, and they are magnified because they are scarring public trust in a nascent institution. Defending those errors because of his character is indeed playing the man not the ball.

jenduncan.bsky.social•103 days ago

If you read through my posts you’ll see that I haven’t defended *any* of the judgements he’s made. Very deliberately. I have, however, defended what I believe to be the integrity and thoughtfulness with which he has endeavoured to make them.

hingehead.bsky.social•103 days ago

This is bluesky, not the spanish inquisition - I can only make a call on what I read, not your intention. I wasn't saying you were coming from a bad place - I just thought it was an odd thing to rail against pile-on replying to a post of the article rather than the actual pile-on. Probably just me.

jenduncan.bsky.social•103 days ago

It should be a conversation - not yelling, no assumptions, minimal hostility.

Pile-ons suck. Particularly when there’s a real person lying at the bottom of it.

Then again, you’re the only one who stuck around to finish the conversation so kudos.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. 🙏

jenduncan.bsky.social•103 days ago

@hingehead.bsky.social there are many people in this world who make bad decisions for bad reasons. In my view this was not the case here. And I tire of living in a world where we rain hellfire down on people whose decisions we don’t like but also don’t have to make, in all their complexity.

hingehead.bsky.social•103 days ago

I don't think it was a singular wrong decision the entire process seems tainted by his repeated involvement - in spite of warnings from NACC colleagues - that line "it was not just foreseeable but foreseen" feels like pattern blindness to natural justice - not something that he is known for.

jenduncan.bsky.social•103 days ago

And for the record .. those who acted knowingly, deliberately and with forethought to design and implement Robodebt should have every book under the sun thrown at them. It was cruel, heartless and unconscionable.

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