Tag: NDIS

Push for NDIS to explain ‘cookie-cutter’ algorithm

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The head of the NDIS has revealed for the first time some details of how the technology sitting behind the controversial new independent assessments will operate, raising concerns that...

Govt spending $250,000 each month on NDIS app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is spending just under $250,000 every month on developing a new NDIS app, as debate around the financial “sustainability” of the scheme continues. Questions have also...

Govt still committed to NDIS ‘robo-planning’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is still committed to introducing NDIS independent assessments, dubbed by many as “robo-planning”, despite recently “pausing” the rollout of the highly controversial scheme. The government is...

Govt data sharing plan creates ‘robodebt’ threat

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor will vote against the government’s “reckless” plan to open up data sharing, saying the privacy risks are too high and the scheme “opens the door to another robodebt-like...

Shorten calls for end to NDIS ‘robo-planning’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is in a “mad rush” to turn the NDIS into a “human-free robo-system” and should move to immediately scrap plans to introduce mandatory independent assessments, shadow...

‘Robo-planning’ will ‘blow-up’ NDIS: key architect

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s planned NDIS independent assessments are akin to “robo-planning” and will “blow up” the crucial scheme, one of its key architects says.  Melbourne Disability Institute director Professor Bruce...

No ‘fairness’ in the harm caused by algorithms

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
Australia is racing into the next decades of the digital era wilfully blind and ill-prepared as to the impact of algorithms on its citizens. I say wilfully blind because...

‘Unethical’: NDIS participants ‘lured’ into trials

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
NDIS participants, including some with intellectual disabilities, were “lured” into participating in trials of the controversial new independent assessments with “scam-like” text messages, former NDIS Technology Authority chief Marie...

‘Guinea pigs’: Govt readies to launch NDIS app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is preparing to launch an NDIS app within months, amid concerns raised by former NDIS Technology Authority chief Marie Johnson that experimentations with new technologies through...