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flag Rick Morton won Australia’s top literary prize for exposing the robo-debt scandal, criticizing ongoing lack of accountability.

flag Rick Morton won the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction for *Mean Streak*, a book exposing Australia’s robo-debt scandal, an illegal welfare debt system that wrongly targeted over 500,000 people from 2015 to 2019. flag Despite the honor, Morton criticized the lack of accountability, noting no senior officials have faced meaningful consequences, with some still in public service roles. flag He emphasized that the award, worth $80,000 tax-free, will support his writing in Paris, but he remains focused on justice and systemic reform. flag Other winners included Michelle de Kretser, Geraldine Fela, Peter Carnavas, Krystal Sutherland, and David Brooks, each receiving the same prize amount.

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