Health Insurance Amendment (Incentive Payments and Other Measures) Bill 2026

Senator RUSTON (South Australia—Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (13:02): I seek some clarification in relation to your initial comment, about objective criteria, in response to that question. That is the very problem with the aged-care automated decision-making algorithm: the objective criteria are wrong, but we were not able to see any evidence of those criteria before the algorithm was put into action and provided a series of inaccurate results for older Australians.

Do you stand by the basis of my original question, which was that it was actually the objective criteria that were wrong—albeit objective, they were still wrong—that caused the problem?