Senator Malcolm Roberts

3 hours ago

A late government amendment (IC116) was dropped on our office proposing broad new immunities from producing documents or information for key NDIS figures, including the CEO, board members, commissioners, actuaries, and agency officers.

When I first reviewed the amendment, it looked like a sweeping shield that could let wrongdoers off the hook, shut down accountability, block Senate estimates from getting answers, and potentially cover up fraud. I asked the Minister on whether fraud was even on their radar and questioned if it was part of a deal with the LNP.

Minister McAllister assured me that the core purpose of the amendment is actually to stop dodgy providers from exploiting existing privacy clauses to dodge fraud investigations, workplace health and safety checks, and anti-corruption oversight (such as the NACC and ACIC).

The Minister clarified that these strict immunities only apply to protecting sensitive, personal information belonging to NDIS participants. She maintained that standard redaction isn't always enough to safely handle participant privacy, though agency staff remain fully accountable to bodies like the NACC.

While I completely agree that participants' personal details must remain private and out of the public eye, I’m concerned this would block senators from accessing documents with personal details redacted. The Minister said that officers would have to evaluate requests on a case-by-case basis depending on the exact nature of the protected information involved. ... See MoreSee Less

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Senator Malcolm Roberts

5 hours ago

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Senator Malcolm Roberts

5 hours ago

For the past year, human assessors were strictly prohibited from overriding computer decisions (even when clinically wrong), leading to under-assessments, long waiting lists and a sixfold surge in appeals, with elderly Australians dying before their reviews were resolved.

AI should only ever be a support tool, never the final decision-maker over human lives and One Nation will legislate to ban fully automated government decision-making.

This AI decision-making system is part of a broader pattern of attacks by the Albanese Government on our elderly, including:

👉🏻 Reducing health insurance rebates, pushing up to 75,000 pensioners into the public system and costing taxpayers approximately an extra $2 billion annually.

👉🏻 Attempting to impose co-contributions on basic personal care (which they were forced to roll back).

👉🏻 Increasing means-tested accommodation fees and daily living costs for retirees.

👉🏻 Creating backlogs through the Support at Home framework.

👉🏻 Raising Centrelink deeming rates by 0.5%, effectively reducing pensions based on assumed, unearned interest.

👉🏻 Capping allied health services for older veterans at $5,000 (which the Senate successfully blocked).

Basically stealing money from pensioners!

⚠️This is a short excerpt from a nearly 14-minute speech. Watch the full segment here: senroberts.com/4egR70Z ... See MoreSee Less

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