Overview

• Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said Deloitte will return the final payment on its A$440,000 contract, with the refund details to be published after the transaction is completed.
• DEWR re-uploaded a revised report on Friday that removed fabricated citations and a made-up quote attributed to a Federal Court judgment.
• The updated appendix reveals Deloitte used an Azure OpenAI GPT‑4o–based tool chain hosted on the department’s Azure tenancy for parts of the technical work.
• Deloitte and the department said the corrections do not change the review’s findings or recommendations, and the firm stated the matter was resolved with the client.
• Academic Chris Rudge first identified the false references, prompting political calls for tougher oversight of consultants’ AI use and, from some critics, for a larger refund.