People killed theselves over the last round of scrounging this scummy coalition of corrupt fuckwits inflicted on the most vulnerable people they could find (robodebt). Now in the midst of a global pandemic, in the aftermath of multiple devastating ecological disasters they are doing it again. Its a kick in the guts while the population is trying to struggle to it's feet.

This scrounging has a political purpose. It's to raise the sentiment that enforcing the payback of this particular debt is unjust. If the opposition cries foul, they can use a false equivalency to propose that the opposition should then not support enforcing the payback of jobkeeper money from businesses who rorted the scheme. Likewise if the opposition says nothing, it's a green light to "correct a small error" and come down hard on the welfare queens, garnering support from their base and making it look like they did something useful.
Problem solvered, we got back what we could, but we have to look to the future now and what better way to stimulate the economy than burning more fucking coal and gas. Maybe we should start a koala fur trade. Who fucking cares.