But it is working through a multi-department approach to implementing them, with a response expected around the end of the year.

Ms Chaney complimented the government for starting the royal commission to examine the coalition’s “appalling breach of ‘small l’ liberal values”.

But she encouraged Labor to back her proposed oversight committee that would give parliament biannual progress reports on the rollout.

“It is easy to demand reform while in opposition, but delivering on reform that holds you accountable while in power is more challenging,” Ms Chaney told AAP.

“Too often we see important recommendations from royal commissions, parliamentary committees or external committees ignored by the government of the day.

“(It) would ensure a busy government doesn’t reject the hard parts and only make cosmetic changes.” 

The scheme, which ran from 2015 to 2019 under the former coalition government, used annual tax office data to calculate average fortnightly earnings and automatically issue debt notices to welfare recipients.

Hundreds of thousands of Australians were caught up in the debacle, which illegally recovered more than $750 million and was linked to several suicides.

It is unlikely the government will back Ms Chaney and vote through her proposed committee, instead backing in its own approach.

“I was part of organising the robodebt class action and it was Labor that promised the robodebt royal commission in opposition, long before the ‘teals’ existed,” Government Services Minister Bill Shorten told AAP.

“I’m always interested in their views, but it is Labor who pushed for action on robodebt and it is Labor who will make sure it never happens again.”

Along with the 57 recommendations, the commission’s final report referred a number of people for civil and criminal prosecution.

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