Austrac uses Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry platforms. The agency has confirmed it, there is at least a $12 million contract, and Services Australia’s own internal documents name Palantir as the software Austrac relies on to manage its financial data holdings.
Austrac’s NDIS Financial Crime Guide instructs banks to file suspicious matter reports tagged with NDIS keywords. Austrac’s own privacy documentation confirms those reports carry the personal details of NDIS participants. Austrac sits on the Fraud Fusion Taskforce, the body driving the crackdown on NDIS spending that MWM has been reporting on for the past fortnight.
What nobody in government will say is whether NDIS participant data reaches Palantir, or whether it gets there through Austrac’s back door. We put questions to both Austrac and the NDIS. Two days on, neither has answered.
Gotham is the same platform the IDF uses in Gaza. It identifies hidden networks, maps the relationships between people, and tracks money flows and movement over time. Palantir chief executive Alex Karp says his company is proud of the role it plays “especially in places we can’t talk about”.
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Articles Mentioned
Palantir and the NDIS
Robodebt encore? Palantir lurks as MPs shirk vote, NDIS Bill passes (Claudia Weisenberger)
Robodebt encore? Palantir lurks as MPs shirk vote, NDIS Bill passes
Robodebt on Steroids. Palantir eyes NDIS (Claudia Weisenberger)
NDIS Bill hits the disabled harder than the fraudsters (Claudia Weisenberger)
NDIS cuts could restrict some people from work access
‘This cannot have been for nothing’: NDIS report due
All of Claudia Weisenberger’s reporting
https://michaelwest.com.au/author/claudia-weisenberger/
Zomi Frankcom
Zomi Frankcom killing. Press Club takes on Israel’s ambassador (Joshua Barnett)
Zomi Frankcom killing. Press Club takes on Israel’s ambassador
Elbit: how Australia helped finance the IDF killing of Zomi Frankcom and the slaughter in Gaza (Michael West)
Elbit: how Australia helped finance the IDF killing of Zomi Frankcom and the slaughter in Gaza
PM to push for investigation into aid worker’s death
Outrage: Israel clears soldiers over Australian’s death
Thiel and Jason Arday
Thiel-linked ‘race science’ network penetrated Cambridge, targeted Jason Arday (Nafeez Ahmed)
Thiel-linked ‘race science’ network penetrated Cambridge, targeted Jason Arday
Jason Arday. Young, autistic, black academic bullied to death (Michael West and Aleta Moriarty)
Jason Arday. Young, autistic, black academic bullied to death
Two more that belong here and weren’t in your screenshot, both directly referenced on camera. Add or cut as you like:
Human v Algorithm. NDIS wrecking ball misses target (Claudia Weisenberger)
Palantir eyes NDIS | The West Report (the previous episode of this thread)
00:00 Palantir in Canberra
00:44 Gotham in Gaza
02:24 What Austrac Confirms
04:03 What They Won’t Say
04:49 What Gotham Does
05:50 Karp and Thiel
07:01 Did Anyone Vote
08:18 The Thiel Think Tank
09:13 Sign Off
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
