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 ...

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 ...

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

Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

Cherie Burdett estimates that more than 500 people attended her son Tory's funeral. The 29-year-old was "six-foot tall, bald, covered in tattoos and the most lovable boy you'd ever want to meet", she ...

The federal government has agreed to pay $548 million as part of a compensation package to victims of the "illegal and immoral" robodebt scheme. In the biggest class action settlement in Australian ...

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 ...

If ever there was an instance of such a hideous failing in government policy and its cowardly implementation by the public service, Australia’s cruel, inept and vicious Robodebt program would have to ...

A former Australian government lawyer Tuesday informed a royal commission that he withheld legal advice that the Robodebt scheme, an automated debt assessment and recovery method utilized by Services ...

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 ...

When two young Australians suddenly receive debt letters demanding they pay Centrelink thousands of dollars, they don’t realise they’re caught up in what will become one of the biggest scandals in ...