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Unreasonable and unfair: damning investigation criticises Labor’s algorithm-based tool for aged care
The Guardian World
Monday 26 October 2026, 01:00 UTC
By Melissa Davey Medical editor
1 min read
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Report from commonwealth ombudsman finds ‘technological black box’ ignores transparency recommendations from robodebt royal commissionFollow our Australian politics live blog for latest updatesGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastAn algorithm used by the federal government to assess the level of care older Australians are entitled to is unreasonable, unfair and lacks human oversight, according to a damning investigation by the commonwealth ombudsman. The investigation...
Report from commonwealth ombudsman finds ‘technological black box’ ignores transparency recommendations from robodebt royal commission
An algorithm used by the federal government to assess the level of care older Australians are entitled to is unreasonable, unfair and lacks human oversight, according to a damning investigation by the commonwealth ombudsman.
The investigation also found transparency recommendations from the robodebt royal commission have been ignored.
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