Tag: Amanda Rishworth

Compliance tech automated unlawful payment cancellations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government is under mounting pressure to halt its punitive welfare compliance system and the technology automating it after the Commonwealth Ombudsman confirmed unlawful support payment cancellations. Commonwealth Ombudsman...

Senate demands release of welfare tech probe

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Senate has ordered Employment minister Amanda Rishworth hand over a review of backend technology at her department after a series of bugs and administration failures raised serious doubts...

National disability data to flow from next year

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A disability data hub with de-identified information shared from state and federal government agencies will be up and running next year and fully operational by 2026, half a decade...

197,000 notices wiped from ‘shameful’ robodebt scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Nearly 200,000 people identified by the unlawful robodebt scheme won’t be pursued, with the federal government scrapping long-running investigations and wiping debts from the “shameful” scheme. On Wednesday, Social...