Overview

• Australia’s employment department said Deloitte will repay the final instalment under its contract, with the refund details to be published once the transaction is finalised.
• A corrected version of the Targeted Compliance Framework review was re-uploaded on Friday, removing fabricated citations, fixing footnotes and typographical errors, and adding an AI-use disclosure.
• Deloitte’s updated appendix says a large language model tool chain using Azure OpenAI GPT-4o on the department’s Azure tenancy assisted with technical analysis.
• The original report included nonexistent academic references and a fabricated Federal Court quote, issues first highlighted by University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge and reported by the AFR.
• DEWR and Deloitte state the review’s substance and recommendations remain unchanged, as politicians including Senator Deborah O’Neill criticize the firm’s quality controls and transparency.