Artificial intelligence can predict when taxpayers will pay bills late

Barrister and human rights advocate Fiona McLeod, who delivered the Solomon Lecture titled Accountability in the age of the artificial, said accountability was under threat in Australia and internationally. Ms McLeod called for a robust national integrity commission. "We have settled for a'trust us or vote us out' model of democracy and a veneer of transparency resulting in a piecemeal and un-strategic approach to accountability," she said. "For example, the federal government committed to bring in a Commonwealth integrity commission after its hand was forced by independents in the last Parliament. "The original preferred model of a closed hearings, with no power of the commission to initiate inquiries, appeared to me more like a benign hall monitor issuing'don't run' notices than a body capable of balancing competing public and private interests, of driving a culture of anti-corruption throughout government, private organisations and the community."