What began as a government plan to crack down on welfare fraud turned into one of Australia’s biggest public scandals. An ...

Every welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for real people with complex needs and situations on the other. Over the ...

“This is a game changer”. That’s how Paul Scully, New South Wales Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, described the state government’s launch of a tender for an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has been under intense pressure to allow humans to override the Integrated Assessment Tool’s algorithm when it spits out rogue results. Humans were quietly removed from ...