A Royal Commission into Australia’s Robodebt scheme has referred several government officials for civil and criminal prosecution after handing down its final report on Friday. The inquiry included 46 ...

The scheme, engineered to claw back funds supposedly overpaid to welfare recipients, was broken and cruel from the start. Despite a royal commission’s findings, its political backers are unlikely to ...

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

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

More than a decade after Australia’s notorious Robodebt regime was launched in 2015—causing immense suffering to about 450,000 welfare recipients by falsely accusing them of owing the government huge ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Australian government will pay an extra A$475m (£240m) to people harmed by the country’s unlawful “Robodebt” welfare scheme, bringing the total compensation package to the largest in the nation’s ...

On Friday, the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme will submit its final report to the federal government, which is expected to release it to the public shortly thereafter. The report will be ...

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 ...

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 ...