Tag: RoboDebt

Robo-debt unlawful, Govt admits

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
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...

New data-matching plan for Medicare

Posted on   |  by Sam
The federal government has unveiled a Medicare data-matching scheme to find fraudulent claims, but is at pains to say it won’t be a repeat of the controversial robodebt program....

Robodebt class action launched

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The legal foundations of the controversial robodebt scheme will be tested in court as part of a new class action lawsuit that will argue the government’s use of an...

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...

Labor reignites robo-debt debate

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Labor has called on the government to scrap the “seriously malfunctioning” robo-debt program, the first time it has pushed for the controversial scheme to be stopped entirely. Former Opposition...

Labor reignites robo-debt debate

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Labor has called on the government to scrap the “seriously malfunctioning” robo-debt program, the first time it has pushed for the controversial scheme to be stopped entirely. Former Opposition...

Audit puts heat on DHS digital shift

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Department of Human Services does not have the “appropriate mechanisms” in place to effectively measure its large-scale digital transformation efforts, an audit has found. The Australian National Audit...

Robo-debt goes to federal court

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
The legality of the Australian Government’s highly controversial robo-debt system is set to be tested in federal court in a landmark case in Victoria. Victoria Legal Aid has filed...

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...