Tag: RoboDebt

Public sector technology is failing the public interest

Posted on   |  by Dr Lesley Seebeck
In the preface to the Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes reflects on how she was startled at the ‘myriad’ of ways...

DHS watered down data scientists’ advice on robodebt

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The department responsible for robodebt tried to water down independent advice from data experts and asked the government technology agency to enhance the illegal scheme’s “user experience” in less...

Push for a Royal Commission into ‘robo-NDIS’

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
The Royal Commission into Robodebt heard significant revelations about the series of failures that led up to the illegal tech-based scheme.  Robodebt involved the use of an algorithm to...

197,000 notices wiped from ‘shameful’ robodebt scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Nearly 200,000 people identified by the unlawful robodebt scheme won’t be pursued, with the federal government scrapping long-running investigations and wiping debts from the “shameful” scheme. On Wednesday, Social...

Robodebt Royal Commission to be launched this year

Posted on   |  by catherine@innovationaus.com
A Royal Commission into the robodebt scandal will be launched by the end of the year following Labor’s election win on the weekend. Labor promised to launch the commission...

Governance for the National Disability Investment System

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
It should not take Royal Commissions and class actions to remediate the intractable defects that exist within the NDIS, but the community demands justice and safety. So catastrophic is...

The Hunger Games created by NDIS algorithms

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
This fifth article in the Defending the NDIS series looks at the harm caused by algorithms and the perverted power politics of algorithms that is driving political debate. The...