About the event
The Robodebt Royal Commission’s final report is due to be submitted in July this year. Our expert panel will be discussing the outcomes of the report, and its implications for the use of automated decision-making in public administration. Panellists will discuss various strategies for ensuring that use of automation in government decision-making is fair, transparent, and accountable.
About the speakers
Professor Paul Henman
Professor for Digital Sociology & Social Policy, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Paul Henman is Professor of Digital Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Queensland. He is also a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. For almost 30 years, Paul’s research has investigated the use of digital and information technologies by governments in policy making and service delivery, and the implications for citizenship and the operation of power. His research deploys both traditional and innovative digital social research methods. His publications include Governing Electronically (Palgrave 2010) and Performing the State (Routledge 2018), and he has written authoritatively on the policy and legal implications of AI for the Oxford Handbook on Administrative Justice (2022).
A/Prof Yee-Fui Ng 
Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation at Monash University
Yee-Fui Ng is an Associate Professor in Law and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation at Monash University, Australia. Her research centres on the intersection between public law and politics, focussing on enhancing executive accountability. Yee-Fui is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a finalist of the Holt Prize.
Emeritus Professor Terry Carney AO
Emeritus Professor of Law at the Law School, University of Sydney
Terry Carney AO, FAAL is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Law School, University of Sydney. For nearly 40 years he was a part-time member of the AAT and its predecessor dealing with social security appeals. In early 2017 he handed down the first of five decisions finding Robodebt to be unlawful. Following non-renewal of his AAT post he published academic articles exposing the illegality from early 2018. He has written widely on the role of AI and algorithms in welfare and is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence on ADM and Society
