# Aged care algorithm and Snowy Hydro costs threaten Albanese’s legacy

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/albos-next-legacy-disaster-could-dwarf-the-voice-debacle-as-labor-taxpayers-foot-a-25billion-bill-peter-van-onselen/
- Published: 2026-10-27T00:19:27+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T00:32:31+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16240765/PVO-aged-care-snowy-hydro-political-failures-albo.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- An aged care algorithm has drawn a damning Ombudsman assessment.
- Snowy Hydro 2.0 could cost $25 billion.
- The writer says both projects expose a gap between promises and delivery.

## Summary

An opinion writer argues that two major policy problems could overshadow the failed Voice referendum as legacies of the Albanese government: flaws in the automated system that allocates aged care support, and the escalating cost of Snowy Hydro 2.0. The article says the cases expose a gap between political promises and delivery, with vulnerable older people bearing the consequences of decisions they may struggle to challenge.

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has criticised the aged care assessment algorithm’s fairness, transparency and correction process; the government says a human review pathway is due in January, with an independent review expected next year. Snowy Hydro 2.0, promoted at an initial estimate of about $2 billion, could cost $25 billion and is expected to become fully operational in three years. The piece is commentary, and presents these developments as evidence of policy and administrative failure.

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