RoboNDIS Algorithm
Repository
This is a collation of my writings on RoboNDIS algorithms and defective systems over the best part of the past decade.
My focus in these writings is primarily the defective systems and ungoverned defective algorithms that automate harm. Many journalists, advocates, and scholars have approached me about access to this material, and while all of it is public, the collation of the material in one repository provides ready access to commentators.
The material that has been presented in various Parliamentary submissions is protected by Parliamentary Privilege, and forms the basis of many of the articles I have subsequently written.
It is my belief, that all NDIS problems are traceable to the original sin of the unlawful fiction of ‘primary disability’, and the wormholes of defective systems and algorithms that compensate and automate this unlawfulness. Simply changing the legislation to make lawful that which is unlawful, does not remove the layers of compensating unlawfulness.
All NDIS problems are rooted in these defective systems. Everything. Fraud. Data breaches. Cyber security. The inability to accurately forecast: in fact, the inability to forecast at all. Payment defects and irregularities. Defective and unlawful data design and management.
All this is not only affecting service delivery and harming hundreds of thousands of people who depend on it, but it fundamentally undermines policy responses and options.
It’s like squeezing a balloon: exerting pressure in one area, leads to blow outs in other areas and eventually rupture. No amount of legislation reform or tweaking will overcome this.
Literally, no one escapes.
What we have witnessed over the years: The NDIS out of control. Operating unlawfully. Obstruction of justice. Complexity and arbitrary decisions fed by worm holes of defective algorithmic systems. The NDIS numbers don't add up , and never will. Horrifically, the deaths *ARE* adding up.
In these submissions and articles are stories on the public record of the most sickening human suffering and death. I have not sought to catalogue or keep a census of the deaths - that was not the purpose of my investigations.
My focus continues to be on the defective systems and ungoverned use of algorithms which cause the harm and death. However, I am aware that others are keeping track of the death toll.
I am happy for my work to be used and referenced to build public awareness and revulsion as to what is happening, and hopefully to be a resource for a future Royal Commission into RoboNDIS.
In addition to my own writings in this repository, I have included articles and assets (such as podcasts and film) created by others who have referenced my work. Thank you.
I have also included a section at the end which acknowledges the excellent work of independent expert commentators, to give a sense of the extraordinary extent of the examination of use of algorithms by the NDIS NDIA. Specifically recognising the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society; Electronic Frontiers Australia; the Australian Computer Society; The Saturday Paper; and InnovationAus.
The expert warning signals are
loud and clear
My Evidence
My Submission (Number 25: ‘Ignoring the Risk of the Lack of Capability’) to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into the NDIS Bill (2024).
Inquiry Report tabled 10 June 2024.
This is my most recent submission, which amongst other things, provides a detailed explanation of the unlawfulness of the NDIS algorithms against sections of the NDIS legislation, resulting in a population-wide scale of automated harm. Literally, nobody escapes. Also again examined in this submission is the unlawful fiction of ‘primary disability - the original sin of the NDIS from which all other sins flow.
The book ‘Nadia: Politics | Bigotry | Artificial Intelligence’. By Marie Johnson. Available on Amazon.
Published 16 February 2024.
This insider story details the common origins of RoboDebt, RoboNDIS and Nadia and presents a forensic timeline of events, decisions and players.
This book, which is an Amazon Best Seller, is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the enormous opportunity of Artificial Intelligence and the abuse that is happening through the ungoverned use of algorithms by the Australian Government.
My Submission (Number 137) to the JSCNDIS Inquiry into the Capability and Culture of the NDIA.
Inquiry Report tabled 16 November 2023.
This JSCNDIS Inquiry made findings of unlawfulness regarding the ‘administrative convenience’ of primary disability, which was an issue I had been pursuing for a number of years. Notwithstanding this finding, the NDIA CEO responded to my submission (see link) effectively saying I didn’t know what I was talking about.
My Submission (Number 33) to the JSCNDIS on NDIS Inquiry into Independent Assessments.
Inquiry Report tabled 19 October 2021.
My Submission (Number 1) to the JSCNDIS Inquiry into NDIS Systems.
Inquiry Report tabled 21 December 2018.
My Articles
and Expert Analysis
I Crashed ChatGPT - Here’s What Happened. 29 August 2025.
The Dark World of NDIS Systems Outages. 5 August 2025.
DAMNING ANAO REPORT ON NDIA BOARD. 11 June 2025.
BOMBSHELL: NDIA DOES NOT READ REPORTS. 28 February 2025.
NDIS RFT Answered. 21 February 2025.
The dangerous culture that created Robodebt and RoboNDIS. 27 September 2024.
myGov: The Beginning of the End of Whole-of-Government. 9 August 2024.
Whole-of-Government V People with Disability 5 April 2024.
‘Marie, What the F*ck are You Doing?’ 27 February 2024.
Committee Bombshell ~ NDIA Has Been Operating Unlawfully 22 November 2023.
My Chat With GPT on NDIS Legislation and RoboNDIS Algorithms. 27 April 2023.
Prelude to the RoboNDIS Royal Commission. 14 March 2023.
Part 1/6: Defending the NDIS ~ A Policy Examination. 18 April 2022.
The Innovation Papers ~ Delivering a Functional NDIS eMarket. 10 August 2022.
The Algorithm-Industrial Complex: Where is the Widespread Backlash? 14 September 2021.
NDIS Algorithms and King Henry VIII Powers. 15 July 2021.
Putting the $4b ‘Assistive Tech’ Market at Risk. 24 June 2021
‘Citizen-Centric’ Demolished by NDIS Algorithms. 24 May 2021.
No ‘Fairness’ in the Harm Caused by Algorithms. 15 April 2021.
2020: KENNETH JENKINS ORATION. 8 December 2020.
Nadia and DHCC on Amazon Best Seller List at the Same Time. 2 August 2025
Digital Media
Film ~ Videos ~ Podcasts
‘I Am Not A Number’ Documentary Film On Demand at SBS. 19 May 2025.
The NDIS Bill Song via AI. 23 July 2024.
Trulience Podcast with Marie Johnson. 20 June 2024.
Video expose. NDIS Price Catalogue Revealed. 28 June 2022.
Save Our #NDIS. 8 July 2021.
The Making of Nadia Video. February 2017.
Articles & Analysis
Referencing My Commentary
‘Dangerous Future’ in NDIS Tech Experimentation by Denham Sadler. 28 March 2021.
Independent
Expert Commentary
'How people are assessed for the NDIS is changing. Here's what you need to know - ADM+S Centre. 1 October 2025
2025 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Social Services - Building Inclusive Futures - ADM+S Centre. 5 August 2025
Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme. By Dr Georgia Van Toorn and Terry Carney AO. 30 May 2024.
Algorithm to be used for NDIS plans | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: ‘Catastrophic errors’ seen in rushed NDIS reform | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: Shorten revives the Coalition’s failed NDIS reforms | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: NDIS crackdown wrongly withdraws support | The Saturday Paper
Combative NDIA’s ‘appalling’ impacts | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: The phone call that denied elderly patients access to hospital | The Saturday Paper
The restructuring of the NDIS | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: Key NDIS emails held on private bank server | The Saturday Paper
NDIS media strategy briefing given before review finished | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: Robo-debt ‘insights’ to shape NDIS compliance | The Saturday Paper
Robo-debt: Liberals knew it was illegal before it started | The Saturday Paper
NDIS Commission on the brink | The Saturday Paper
‘Last-minute homework vibes’: Inside Shorten’s NDIS reforms | The Saturday Paper
Executive quits after NDIS changes | The Saturday Paper
Exclusive: Documents leaked from secretive NDIS taskforce | The Saturday Paper
Overstretched NDIS regulator in crisis | The Saturday Paper
The hidden risks in the NDIS restructure | The Saturday Paper
Shorten’s kill list: Morrison, Tudge and Robert | The Saturday Paper
‘Horrified’ NDIA’s Salesforce probe drags past 2 years
No ‘massive algorithm program’ in the NDIS: Shorten
No ‘massive algorithm program’ in the NDIS: Shorten
Shorten backs 'ethical' automation for NDIS assessments
NDIA's Salesforce bill blows out to $170 million
'Time pressures' hang over NDIA technology overhaul
NDIA mulls tech overhaul after procurement scandal
NDIA goes to ground on its ongoing Salesforce blowout
NDIA procurement scandal referred to law enforcement
Salesforce costs hit $140 million at NDIS
NDIA forged ahead with CRM without business case
NDIA accepted Salesforce gifts as contract quadrupled to $126m
Govt looks to reuse NDIS Salesforce platform
NDIA officials investigated for accepting Salesforce gifts
Landmark NDIS review calls for centralised services registry
Salesforce pricing leaked to Microsoft in first NDIS CRM tender
Data of 11,000 people stolen in NDIS breach
Salesforce met with Robert ahead of $100m NDIA tender
NDIS Salesforce CRM blows out by $68m despite ‘price certainty’
Salesforce bags another $4m for its $124m NDIS platform
NDIA orders Salesforce contract review, refers staff for investigation
Salesforce software costing the NDIS $2m-a-month
Independent panel of experts to review troubled NDIS
Inquiry to probe NDIA’s ‘capability and culture’
Class action looms over NDIS third party data breach
NDIS tech still in ‘infancy’, nearly 10 years later
NDIS ‘robo-plans’ test algorithmic transparency
Push for NDIS to explain 'cookie-cutter' algorithm
Govt still committed to NDIS ‘robo-planning’
'Most egregious': Tech vendors on notice over govt gifts
Salesforce is charging govt for licences no one uses
NACC referral for Stuart Robert and lobby-linked tech procurements
Lobby firm allegedly sought to pay Robert to help win tech contracts
Procurement inquiry to scrutinise lobby-linked tech contracts
Single supplier procurements the norm in lobby-linked tech contracts
‘Follow the money’: Lobby-linked contracts had real conflicts of interest