Class action to target government over ‘robotdebt’ scheme
Centrelink’s controversial ‘robodebt’ scheme will be the subject of a class action led by law firm Gordon Legal with the support of the Labor Party.
Centrelink’s controversial ‘robodebt’ scheme will be the subject of a class action led by law firm Gordon Legal with the support of the Labor Party.
The Department of Human Services has indicated that a program that involving Centrelink matching Medicare’s data holdings to its own records of welfare claimants to find evidence of fraud or identity theft will has a role for human analysts.
The Department of Human Services is preparing to launch a new program that will combine data from Centrelink and Medicare in an effort to unearth discrepancies between records held at the two agencies.
The Department of Human Services has apologised for a major outage that took the government’s myGov service online during a period of peak demand as people attempt to file tax returns.
The myGov portal operated by the Department of Human Services has suffered a major outage.
The Australian Border Force has warned of delays in passenger processing at international airports, with ABF staff forced to resort to manual processing.
The Department of Human Services is preparing to launch a new chatbot that it says will offer tailored support when individuals seek to access online government services.
A shift by Centrelink to the New Payments Platform (NPP) will mean that emergency welfare payments can be made almost instantly, according to the government.
New South Wales’ government chief information security officer (GCISO) Dr Maria Milosavljevic has left her role for a new position at the Commonwealth’s Department of Human Services.
The Department of Human Services has officially thrown open the doors of a new Canberra-based centre dedicated to driving the adoption of AI across government
The Department of Human Services has expanded the ranks of its digital assistants.
Up to 36 veterans will be trained in information security roles at the Department of Human Services as part of a new program, the government has announced.
The Department of Human Services has officially begun the hunt for a new chief information officer to replace Gary Sterrenberg.
The Department of Human Services has spent all of the $102 million budget assigned to its still incomplete Child Services payments and case management system overhaul.
The Australian Taxation Office holds the voiceprint of one in seven Australians, according to figures released to Computerworld.