A bipartisan Senate committee has sounded the alarm over the expanded use of automated decision-making in immigration and biosecurity matters that should be decided on a case-by-case basis by federal ministers.
The warning, the second from the committee in less than two months, comes as the government looks to introduce a consistent legal framework for automated decision-making and agencies pause their use of automation in the wake of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt scheme.
In the report into delegated legislation, published on Sunday, the committee questioned the use of automated decision-making for two new legislative instruments signed off by Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil and Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry minister Murray Watt in recent weeks.
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