How the government came to be running an unlawful scheme needs to be properly investigated, crossbench senator Rex Patrick said, as the Opposition officially backed calls for a Royal...
A full inquiry into the government’s illegal robodebt scheme now seems inevitable, with the main question now centring around what form it will take. On Friday afternoon Government Services...
Despite nearly 500,000 unlawfully issued debts worth more than $700 million, and the minister still couldn’t apologise. Fronting up to a hastily called press conference after cynically waiting until...
The federal government will refund nearly 500,000 robodebts worth more than $700 million after admitting significant elements of the scheme were unlawful. In a taking out the trash announcement...
The federal government is on the hunt for a private company to provide it a 24/7 data platform allowing it to conduct searches to verify information about welfare recipients....
The Senate has ordered government to release legal advice it received on the highly controversial robodebt scheme, as Labor called for everyone who paid a ‘debt’ under the program...
The government’s robodebt scheme has hit a “new low” with revelations that vulnerable Australians were increasingly targeted last year, despite warnings the scheme was illegal, the federal Opposition says....
The federal government has acknowledged its trouble-plagued robodebt scheme is an “unquantifiable risk” to its coffers and announced a range of new tech-focused projects as part of the Mid-Year...
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...
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....
Newsletter Signup
Subscribe to our newsletter for InnovationAus news delivered right to your inbox.