Tag: RoboDebt

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Labor reignites robo-debt debate

Labor has called on the government to scrap the “seriously malfunctioning” robo-debt program, the first time it has pushed for the controversial scheme to be stopped entirely. Former Opposition...

Audit puts heat on DHS digital shift

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Department of Human Services does not have the “appropriate mechanisms” in place to effectively measure its large-scale digital transformation efforts, an audit has found. The Australian National Audit...

Robo-debt goes to federal court

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The legality of the Australian Government’s highly controversial robo-debt system is set to be tested in federal court in a landmark case in Victoria. Victoria Legal Aid has filed...

UN ranks Aust second for eGovt

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Anyone who has watched the series of technology failures across the Commonwealth in the past couple of years – from the Census fail, to ATO outages, to Centrelink’s harmful...

Robo-debt tech gets a boost

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s controversial robo-debt data matching scheme has been further funded despite revelations the program has so far only just recovered more money than it has cost. The...

DHS RoboDebt project ‘went well’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Department of Human Services showed it was everything but human during a Senate Committee hearing on Friday delving into the digital delivery of services. The DHS came back...

Data61’s RoboDebt work revealed

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The CSIRO’s data branch Data61 was paid nearly $150,000 for its work on the government’s much-maligned RoboDebt program across three separate contracts, according to questions on notice from the...