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Govt targets new consumer protections for AI

The federal government will investigate new consumer protections for artificial intelligence to address risks such retail surveillance pricing and agentic commerce models. An investigation of potential options for consumer...

AI hasn’t upended labour market yet: Govt report

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A first of its kind report by the federal government says artificial intelligence is not yet disrupting Australia’s labour market, despite several reports the technology is a growing factor...

Automated welfare compliance saga hangs over budget

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s automated welfare system remains an “unquantifiable” liability, with the government bracing for compensation claims for invalid decisions stemming from a malfunctioning IT system and failures to administer social...

‘Failure on top of failure’: Welfare systems on the brink

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Crumbling technology, design flaws and gaping governance gaps in the federal government’s welfare compliance system mean the validity of its automated decisions can not be assured as it impacts...

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...