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Robo-debt unlawful, Govt admits

The federal government has admitted defeat in a major legal challenge against robo-debt, conceding that a debt raised through the highly controversial program was unlawful. Victorian Legal Aid brought...

Robo-debt reax: Class action looms

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s robo-debt about-face was made just two weeks before the legality of the scheme is set to be tested in Federal Court, and the day before the writ...

Consultant risk for new ServicesAus

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The new Services Australia department provides an opportunity to improve the digital delivery of government services, but it cannot just replicate its NSW counterpart and rely on outsourcing, according...

Centrelink folds in Robodebt case

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Centrelink has wiped clean the debt at the centre of a second Federal Court case challenging the controversial Robodebt data matching and debt recovery program. Victorian Legal Aid said...

Shetler on DTA’s digital strategy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s just-released digital transformation strategy offers no real strategy or path towards achieving its lofty aims, according to former Digital Transformation Office chief executive Paul Shetler. The...

In support of mandatory data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It must be getting close to time where we collectively reassess the way the nation surveys the growth or otherwise of the tech sector to ensure Australians are getting...

UN ranks Aust second for eGovt

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Anyone who has watched the series of technology failures across the Commonwealth in the past couple of years – from the Census fail, to ATO outages, to Centrelink’s harmful...

Digital shift in welfare burden

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Increased automation and digitisation in government welfare services had “shifted the burden” onto the community sector and hurting Australia’s most vulnerable citizens, a new report has found. The Anglicare...

Data61’s RoboDebt work revealed

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
The CSIRO’s data branch Data61 was paid nearly $150,000 for its work on the government’s much-maligned RoboDebt program across three separate contracts, according to questions on notice from the...

Data-driven drug tests a disaster

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
The government’s new “data-driven profiling” method for drug testing welfare recipients risks running into the same issues as its robo-debt tool and poses a serious privacy risk, the Opposition...