how computers still decide who gets care
- Written by Laura Davy, Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Centre for Ageing Better/UnsplashEvery welfare program negotiates a fundamental tension: between fiscal responsibility and consistency on one hand, and care for real people with complex needs and situations on the other.
Over the past decade or so, one Australian program after another has tried to absolve itself of that tension by handing off part...





