Despite declaring the scheme a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” that “made many people feel like criminals,” the Australian Labor government’s royal commission into the punitive ...

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has launched an investigation into a controversial aged care algorithm — dubbed ‘Robodebt 2.0’ — ...

Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t ...

In this bulletin, Robodebt victims secure almost half a billion dollars in an historic class-action claim, the Greens push ...

More than a decade after Australia’s notorious Robodebt regime was launched in 2015—causing immense suffering to about 450,000 welfare recipients by falsely accusing them of owing the government huge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian government said on Thursday it had agreed to pay a further A$475 million ($308.66 million) in ...

If ever there was an instance of such a hideous failing in government policy and its cowardly implementation by the public service, Australia’s cruel, inept and vicious Robodebt program would have to ...

Cherie Burdett estimates that more than 500 people attended her son Tory's funeral. The 29-year-old was "six-foot tall, bald, covered in tattoos and the most lovable ...

Today will be a moment of truth for hundreds of thousands of Australians and for what the federal court has condemned as a “shameful chapter” in Australian public administration. This morning, the ...

The federal government has agreed to pay $548 million as part of a compensation package to victims of the "illegal and immoral" robodebt scheme. In the biggest class action settlement in Australian ...

A former Australian government lawyer Tuesday informed a royal commission that he withheld legal advice that the Robodebt scheme, an automated debt assessment and recovery method utilized by Services ...