Australia's aged care algorithm under-assesses older people, and a think tank says robodebt is being repeated
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Assessors are barred from overriding the algorithm, so the people it under-assesses have little recourse.
What happened
A Centre for Public Integrity report warns that the Australian government is repeating the robodebt pattern through automated decision-making. It cites an algorithm in the government's integrated assessment tool that reportedly under-assesses older Australians' home care needs, and assessors are barred from overriding its decisions. The attorney general's department has not said when a draft ADM framework will be published.