Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t ...

Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has launched an investigation into a controversial aged care algorithm — dubbed ‘Robodebt 2.0’ — ...

Today will be a moment of truth for hundreds of thousands of Australians and for what the federal court has condemned as a “shameful chapter” in Australian public administration. This morning, the ...

If ever there was an instance of such a hideous failing in government policy and its cowardly implementation by the public service, Australia’s cruel, inept and vicious Robodebt program would have to ...

In this bulletin, Robodebt victims secure almost half a billion dollars in an historic class-action claim, the Greens push ...

Amid rising unemployment and a deepening cost-of-living and housing crisis, mounting evidence is emerging of ongoing punitive and illegal cutoffs of welfare payments to impoverished recipients, ...

A former Australian government lawyer Tuesday informed a royal commission that he withheld legal advice that the Robodebt scheme, an automated debt assessment and recovery method utilized by Services ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian government said on Thursday it had agreed to pay a further A$475 million ($308.66 million) in ...

Budget, Robodebt Failures Making Australian Government Hesitant About Citizen-Facing AI Your email has been sent The Australian government’s disconnect between a desire for AI implementation and the ...

Cherie Burdett estimates that more than 500 people attended her son Tory's funeral. The 29-year-old was "six-foot tall, bald, covered in tattoos and the most lovable ...