Overview

• Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations confirmed Deloitte will repay the final instalment under its AU$440,000 contract, with the transaction to be made public once finalised.
• The department re-uploaded a corrected version of the report on Friday, removing more than a dozen bogus references and a fabricated Federal Court quote first flagged by academics.
• The updated report’s appendix acknowledges the use of a generative AI large language model, specifying an Azure OpenAI GPT‑4o tool chain licensed by DEWR and hosted on the department’s Azure tenancy.
• DEWR and Deloitte say the fixes do not change the review’s substantive findings or recommendations, and Deloitte said the matter was resolved directly with the client.
• University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge described the original errors as AI hallucinations, and Labor senator Deborah O’Neill criticised the firm’s practices and called for tighter verification of AI use in government work.