Tag: National Disability Insurance Agency

Inquiry to probe NDIA’s ‘capability and culture’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A parliamentary inquiry will examine the capability and culture of the agency that oversees the $30 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme after a series of recent decisions that participants...

Govt ‘wilfully blind’ on public sector labour hire

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal opposition has accused the government of being “wilfully blind” to the use of labour hire within the public service, amid growing concerns about the over reliance on...

NDIS ‘robo-plans’ test algorithmic transparency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s plan to determine the size of NDIS support packages for over 400,000 participants by fitting them into 400 ‘profiles’ will be a test of algorithmic transparency,...

‘Citizen-centric’ demolished by NDIS algorithms

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
After more than twenty years of ‘citizen centric’ strategies by governments around the world, this week saw the demolition in Australia of any pretence of citizen-centric, participant-centric, person-centric –...

Push for NDIS to explain ‘cookie-cutter’ algorithm

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The head of the NDIS has revealed for the first time some details of how the technology sitting behind the controversial new independent assessments will operate, raising concerns that...

‘Guinea pigs’: Govt readies to launch NDIS app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is preparing to launch an NDIS app within months, amid concerns raised by former NDIS Technology Authority chief Marie Johnson that experimentations with new technologies through...
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