Aged Care Minister Sam Rae refuses to answer whether humans can override algorithm in care assessments
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Jakob Neeland
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Aged Care Minister Sam Rae faced intense questioning on ABC Radio National Breakfast about whether a human can override the algorithm determining aged care support for older Australians. Despite being asked directly and repeatedly by host Sally Sara over nearly nine minutes, Rae refused to give a clear yes-or-no answer, engaging in political evasion that drew criticism for its audacity. The article highlights concerns about transparency and accountability in the government's aged care assessment system.
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· 3 pulledThere is a particular kind of political evasion that is almost impressive in its audacity. Not the slippery kind, where a minister edges around a question. The brazen kind, where the question is put to them directly, plainly, repeatedly, and they simply refuse to answer it.
That is what happened on ABC Radio National Breakfast yesterday, when Aged Care Minister Sam Rae sat across from host Sally Sara and was asked, in several different ways and on several different occasions, whether a human being can override the algorithm that determines how much aged care support an older Australian receives.
The transcript makes for excruciating reading.
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