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 ...

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

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 ...

Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes has referred multiple individuals involved with the illegal scheme for civil and criminal prosecutions and other actions. But the names remain secret. They ...

Australian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Australia. Gwendolyn Devoy is a law student at Newcastle University. She files this dispatch from Newcastle, New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The secret final chapter of the robodebt royal commission has finally been released, nearly two-and-a-half years after the probe ...

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 ...

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

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 ...