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

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has launched an investigation into a controversial aged care algorithm — dubbed ‘Robodebt 2.0’ — ...

The number of complaints about assessments for home-based aged care are rising. Now, the ombudsman is getting involved.

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 ...

New automated decision-making tools are being rolled out by the government in aged care, NDIS and beyond. We need to avoid ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Conservationists say move could push species closer to extinction and clearer environmental rules are needed instead ...

The federal government has reached a $475 million compensation settlement in an appeal case from the Robodebt class action. The settlement of the appeal, which is still to be approved by the federal ...