The authors of this report argue that the lessons learned from the implementation of 'Robodebt' provide a critical opportunity for reflection, urging policy-makers, technologists and legal experts to collaborate in designing systems that ensure fair and equitable outcomes, while leveraging the benefits of automation to improve administrative processes.

Hygiene poverty is not merely a localised problem - it has escalated into a national crisis, affecting the lives and well-being of countless students across the country. This report not only uncovers the distressing prevalence of hygiene poverty, but also emphasises the need for systems thinking in developing effective and sustainable solutions.

This paper proposes is a complete reconfiguration of Australia's social security system - a reconfiguration that brings together an integrated policy framework with elements that would constitute a social guarantee in the face of the threats to social and economic security that have come to characterise the neoliberal era.