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Australian studies in law, crime and justice
The great social security conspiracy case
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Wayward governance : illegality and its control in the public sector / P N Grabosky
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989
ISBN 0 642 14605 5
(Australian studies in law, crime and justice series)
Abstract
In September 1977 the acting Commissioner of the Commonwealth Police wrote to the Director-General of Social Security with regard to allegations of fraud against the Department of Social Security perpetrated by several hundred people of 'Greek extraction'. Of 181 persons originally charged with fraud, only 4 were convicted and a subsequent judicial review of the case led to compensation being paid to many of the people originally charged.