Rick Morton
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Don't think Australia couldn't become an autocracy (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. Australians have historically been more willing to believe the 1990s Pantene shampoo maxim “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen” when it comes to hair care than any warnings about the slow creep of authoritarianism. To annunciate the latter can attract significant scorn — labelled, nearly, as treasonous rhetoric — as if an understanding of the brittle systems of government in the West might somehow equate to a disbelief in the proje
Anika Wells wanted this information to stay secret. But the FOI commissioner disagrees (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. Then-minister for aged care Anika Wells redacted advice and “deliberative material” from her staff and public servants in a response to a freedom of information (FOI) request, which has now been rejected by the FOI commissioner. In a case that pierces the veil of government secrecy, FOI commissioner Alice Linacre has overturned a decision made by Wells’ office in February 2025, in which it claimed documents about its response to a multimillio
The NDIA wants disabled people to test a new tool. It won’t say if their personal data will train a cost-cutting algorithm (opens the original)
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If you like this article, share it with your friends. The agency in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is encouraging disabled people to take part in “experience testing” of a new needs assessment tool, without clearly disclosing that their personal data may be used to train an algorithm that cuts their funding. A spokesperson for the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) declined to respond to questions from Crikey about whether the data will train a budget algorith
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