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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci and Christopher Knaus

Coalition warned of problems with tool to predict future terrorist crime but continued to use it on offenders

The perimeter fence at Silverwater jail in Sydney, Australia
An independent report in 2020 found serious problems with the VERA-2R tool used to justify the detention or control of terrorist offenders. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP

The Morrison government was warned of serious problems with a tool designed to predict future crime before using it on 14 occasions over three years, including to justify the use of extraordinary preventative detention powers for terrorist offenders who had finished their sentences.

Guardian Australia can also reveal that, in three separate cases, the government failed to disclose to defendants that it knew of deep flaws with the tool being used to assess their likelihood of future offending.

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