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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...