Hastie says Australia shall be ‘supplicant state’ with out US AI deal
Luca Ittimani
Andrew Hastie has claimed Australia will develop into a “supplicant state” if it doesn’t make a take care of the US to get its frontier AI, suggesting the Aukus army settlement may very well be an appropriate path.
The shadow trade minister informed the Sydney Dialogue the US authorities’s shutdown of entry to Claude Mythos in June confirmed Australia may very well be held hostage if it didn’t get native AI capability. He stated:
With no sovereign AI frontier mannequin right here in Australia, we’re going to be a supplicant state, not a sovereign state … Individuals suppose it’s making memes on ChatGPT. We’re speaking in regards to the world order being modified and Australia falling behind.
Hastie stated Australia was far behind within the race for improvement so ought to look to make a take care of the US because it makes its AI “arms race” towards China.
We have to work on a option to get a hyperscaler down below, or a number of hyperscalers to spend money on sovereign functionality, the identical approach Ford and Basic Motors did 100 years in the past … I believe working with the US, via Aukus if we wish to use that body, is the pathway.
He stated such an final result can be a “balancing act” as Australia wouldn’t have “full management” however stated the nation may deliver its coverage settings to bear on the companies that agreed to arrange right here. He cited a former Labor prime minister’s argument.
I believe Dr Kevin Rudd was precisely proper final week when he stated … trade coverage is now the norm not the exception … Ditch the orthodoxies of the final 40 years and get up to the fact that’s now shaping our world.
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‘No group in society that Pauline Hanson isn’t ready to kick down’, Plibersek says
The social providers minister, Tanya Plibersek, has defended Anthony Albanese towards Pauline Hanson’s feedback about his upbringing and his mom, and stated the criticisms present the One Nation chief is aware of nothing about public housing.
Plibersek tells News24 that Albanese is a “huge boy” and copping criticism for issues he does is honest recreation, however attacking his household is just not. She says she personally knew Albanese’s mom earlier than she grew to become an MP.
Come on, like, I’m all free of charge speech, however attacking somebody’s lifeless mum, is that basically what we’ve come to in relation to free speech on this nation?
Anthony was her carer from a really younger age. He was cooking the meals, he was cleansing the home. He was serving to her do up her buttons, he was her carer, and to faux for a second that she may have gone out and located non-public rental, and that she was clogging up public housing, I believe that claims much more about Pauline Hanson and what she thinks of people that reside in public housing right now than it says about Maryanne Albanese.
Hanson can be below hearth for extra resurfaced feedback about First Nations Australians that I gained’t put right here within the weblog. They’re fairly terrible.
Plibersek says:
I believe this proves that there’s no group in society that Pauline Hanson isn’t ready to kick down on … We’re actually fortunate on this nation, to have 65,000 years of historical past and tradition to study from.
‘Wall of Tears’ exhibition outdoors Parliament Home mourns youngsters killed in Gaza
An exhibition out on the entrance lawns of Parliament Home right now has named the 18,457 youngsters that have been killed in Gaza between the 7 October 2023 assault and July 2025.
The Wall of Tears set up by artist Phil Buehler additionally consists of the pictures and tales of a few of the youngsters.
Greens deputy chief, Mehreen Faruqi, spoke on the exhibition this morning.
It’s inconceivable that anybody can see this lack of harmless life and never really feel their coronary heart break. With each baby killed, our hearts break a little bit bit extra.
Our authorities calls Israel a pal and continues to promote weapons components which are used to homicide youngsters. This exhibition being delivered to Canberra is a crucial reminder of our leaders’ complicity in these crimes. I hope that each one Labor MPs will take the time to view the exhibit and replicate.
Unicef estimates greater than 64,000 youngsters have been killed or injured in Gaza since October 2023.
Ukraine and Venezuela amongst international locations barred from coming to Australia below One Nation plan
Migration from 26 international locations on the federal government’s don’t journey checklist shall be banned by One Nation below their plan, which can embody international locations resembling … Ukraine and Venezuela.
Most nations on the checklist are within the African continent and the Center East, as a result of on-the-ground battle.
Different nations embody Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Chad, South Sudan, Russia and Belarus.
This is likely to be sounding considerably acquainted to you, and that’s as a result of One Nation had introduced this a little bit earlier this 12 months, and can go some option to scale back a few of the non permanent visas they’ve promised.
Douglas Smith
Labor’s Yiwarr McGrath wins NT seat of Mulka
Labor has gained the seat of Mulka within the Northern Territory’s north-east Arnhem Land in a byelection over the weekend, after 35-year-old Yolngu man Yiwarr McGrath secured the victory.
McGrath, a registered nurse and 2021 NT Younger Australian of the 12 months, gained 77.5% of the vote on Saturday amid a low voter turnout.
Labor’s victory comes after the resignation of long-time Unbiased Yiŋiya Guyula from the seat of Mulka, beforehand referred to as Nhulunbuy final month, in protest of the Nation Liberal occasion’s insurance policies, calling them “dehumanising, oppressing and destroying our communities and our folks”.
In Nhulunbuy after his win, McGrath informed the ABC that he was impressed by his upbringing to make a distinction for his folks.
So, I’m going to come back right here to the parliament with real-life experiences and affect coverage for my folks and everybody else on this area.
NT Labor chief, Selena Uibo, congratulated McGrath:
As a Yolŋu man and registered nurse, Yiwarr has seen first-hand the impression of overcrowded homes on households.
He’ll struggle for extra housing, dependable native well being providers, higher roads and financial alternatives for folks throughout the citizens.
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Center East escalation to drive up petrol costs
Jonathan Barrett
Oil costs are rising right now after the widening Center East battle sparked new provide fears, driving Brent crude up greater than 3% to US$108 a barrel this morning.
The worth rally follows contemporary Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia, which have led to the non permanent closure of an important oil pipeline.
Most delivery within the essential Strait of Hormuz has additionally stopped amid renewed pressure between Iran and the US after failed peace talks.
The crude disruptions are driving up costs throughout refined derivatives like petrol, ending a interval of market calm throughout which merchants had anticipated regular provides to renew.
AMP’s chief economist, Shane Oliver, says petrol costs are “doubtless heading even larger with rising world oil costs”.
Australian gas costs may climb an extra 20-30 cents a litre within the coming weeks, testing the excessive ranges reached within the weeks instantly after the preliminary US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
The nationwide common retail petrol value rose by 5.6c a litre final week to $2.11, in keeping with the Australian Institute of Petroleum.
OpenAI says it desires to coach fashions in Australia
Luca Ittimani
OpenAI has stated it desires to coach its fashions in Australia and is negotiating with the Albanese authorities over copyright guidelines.
Ann O’Leary, OpenAI’s vice chairman for world coverage, informed the Sydney Dialogue the prime minister’s speech vowing to guard artists from “theft” had “caught our consideration”. She stated OpenAI was “very desirous to have an even bigger and broader relationship” with Australia. She stated:
I don’t have to inform any of you the way necessary Australia is from a geopolitical standpoint … We very a lot recognise that having a diversification of the place we practice goes to be necessary as you progress ahead.
She stated the OpenAI wished to make sure creators may preserve creating and was in “common” and “deep” dialog with the federal government in regards to the copyright guidelines, which might impression its entry to Australian-made content material.
O’Leary stated OpenAI agreed with Australia’s ideas for constructing datacentres however the AI trade had been stunned by the upset from the initiatives.
I believe many people have been stunned on the flip of how a lot upset there was over datacentres … Individuals really feel like, ‘OK, we’ve this datacentre in our again yard which may be noisy and could also be one thing I don’t wish to take a look at. Along with that I don’t actually know what it’s doing that advantages me.’ So till we are able to do a greater job having folks reside it and really feel it and profit from it, it’s going to proceed to be onerous.
She urged Australia to advocate for sturdy AI governance and its personal entry.
Australia additionally needs to be attracting us, corporations like ours, to come back to Australia however not only for the needs of engaged on vitality and datacentres but in addition to come back and recognise the worth of Australia.
‘Lazy coverage’: crossbenchers and Liberals unite towards non-public well being rebate adjustments for over 65s
Independents Monique Ryan and Jacqui Lambie and shadow well being minister, Anne Ruston, have railed towards the federal government’s plan to scale back non-public medical insurance rebates for over 65s.
This morning, the group launched knowledge from the parliamentary finances workplace that stated half of the $3bn in financial savings would come from the pockets of pensioners.
At a press convention a little bit earlier, Ruston stated it was “lazy” coverage.
You’re being a lazy minister, that is lazy coverage, this can be a lazy invoice and it’s lazy tax development. And 1.2 million pensioners who can least afford a $1.5bn extra value on their on a regular basis lives.
What’s frontier AI?
An ideal query, and one thing which I’ve discovered myself about 30 seconds in the past.
Frontier AI methods are mainly essentially the most superior, latest and succesful fashions out there.
It’s such as you would say the frontier of data is the farthest, most superior level of human understanding.
The Australian nationwide cyber-security centre says a brand new class of frontier AI known as agentic AI instruments may even “plan, make selections and take actions in your behalf”.
The Greens earlier this morning tried to push the federal government to urgently debate and legislate obligatory security testing and transparency obligations for frontier AI methods – however that bid failed within the Senate.
One Nation plans to get visa numbers down ‘primarily by not issuing new’ ones, Barnaby Joyce says
Barnaby Joyce says One Nation will reduce 750,000 non permanent visas primarily by not issuing new ones, quite than kicking folks already within the nation out.
He tells News24 by not permitting the household of non permanent expert staff to use to affix their companions or mother and father in Australia, that’ll reduce the quantity down by greater than 100,000.
Joyce has his glasses on and has introduced some papers with him to try to clarify all of the figures on air.
Requested how it will have an effect on essential shortages like in well being and aged care, Joyce claims there already aren’t that many nurses coming into Australia.
We deliver up t… nurses considering, ‘oh effectively, that’s 50%, or 30% [of skilled migrants]’. No, it’s 1% or much less, the nurses, and fewer than 1% is aged care staff.
We’re getting numbers down primarily by not issuing new visas.
Requested whether or not nurses and development staff must be incentivised to come back to Australia by bringing their household with them – in contrast to different non permanent expert staff below the One Nation proposal – Joyce says no.
This isn’t an actual apples-for-apples comparability, however the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation estimates that internationally certified nurses (IQNs) make up roughly 20% of the overall nursing workforce, and 35% in aged care.
Hastie says Australia shall be ‘supplicant state’ with out US AI deal
Luca Ittimani
Andrew Hastie has claimed Australia will develop into a “supplicant state” if it doesn’t make a take care of the US to get its frontier AI, suggesting the Aukus army settlement may very well be an appropriate path.
The shadow trade minister informed the Sydney Dialogue the US authorities’s shutdown of entry to Claude Mythos in June confirmed Australia may very well be held hostage if it didn’t get native AI capability. He stated:
With no sovereign AI frontier mannequin right here in Australia, we’re going to be a supplicant state, not a sovereign state … Individuals suppose it’s making memes on ChatGPT. We’re speaking in regards to the world order being modified and Australia falling behind.
Hastie stated Australia was far behind within the race for improvement so ought to look to make a take care of the US because it makes its AI “arms race” towards China.
We have to work on a option to get a hyperscaler down below, or a number of hyperscalers to spend money on sovereign functionality, the identical approach Ford and Basic Motors did 100 years in the past … I believe working with the US, via Aukus if we wish to use that body, is the pathway.
He stated such an final result can be a “balancing act” as Australia wouldn’t have “full management” however stated the nation may deliver its coverage settings to bear on the companies that agreed to arrange right here. He cited a former Labor prime minister’s argument.
I believe Dr Kevin Rudd was precisely proper final week when he stated … trade coverage is now the norm not the exception … Ditch the orthodoxies of the final 40 years and get up to the fact that’s now shaping our world.
Greens name for debate on frontier AI fashions that ‘might make us extinct’
The Greens have gone from zero to 100 within the Senate this morning, instantly transferring to droop standing orders to push the federal government to debate and legislate security testing and transparency on frontier AI methods that would make us go extinct.
Senator David Shoebridge is transferring the movement which additionally requires the federal government to push for a worldwide treaty on AI regulation with center powers, together with Canada, Singapore and France.
He tells the Senate the federal government may legislate an “moral AI trade” that constrains the frontier mannequin.
This morning Sam Altman and Elon Musk known as for the sector to pump the breaks on “reckless” AI improvement
Shoebridge says:
I’ll inform you what the Greens suppose we must be speaking about, not the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Invoice, however the truth that main gamers from the AI trade the world over are saying we have to decelerate improvement of frontier fashions as a result of it could make us extinct …
I can’t imagine anybody would vote towards this movement, and I can’t imagine Labor would say ‘no we don’t wish to take care of an extinction danger’.
First feminine excessive court docket justice Mary Gaudron remembered
Mary Gaudron, Australia’s first feminine justice of the excessive court docket of Australia, has been remembered as a lady who broke down obstacles for ladies throughout Australia, for her mind and braveness.
In a social media submit, the governor basic, Sam Mostyn, wrote Gaudron’s distinguished profession “reworked Australia’s authorized panorama”.
From her upbringing in Moree NSW to her advocacy for equal pay and her distinguished service on the nation’s highest court docket, Justice Gaudron introduced her fierce mind, integrity, compassion and a deep dedication to justice to each function she held.
The social providers minister, Tanya Plibersek, additionally paid tribute to Gaudron on social media this morning:
Mary Gaudron modified Australia’s authorized panorama. She fought for equal pay, broke down obstacles for ladies in regulation and public service, and went on to develop into the primary lady appointed to the Excessive Court docket of Australia. Her mind, integrity and braveness made our nation fairer and opened doorways for generations of ladies who adopted.
Benita Kolovos
Victorians proper to query highway upkeep: Carroll
Following from our final submit …
Within the 50km zone round the place the motorcyclist’s crash occurred, the highway situation deteriorated from 1% poor or very poor in 2022 to 44% in poor or very poor situation in 2024.
Ben Carroll was pressed on how the Victorian authorities had let this happen. He stated:
We have now had a variety of climatic occasions. We have now greater, heavier vehicles travelling on our highway community greater than ever earlier than. Having stated that, enterprise as ordinary on our roads and highway resurfacing has not labored … That’s the reason you take a look at the instance in Western Australia, they introduced highway upkeep again inside of presidency after it was outsourced, and that has seen a vastly greater enchancment …
Carroll stated the state authorities had invested $1bn into highway upkeep and highway resurfacing yearly and that Victorians have been proper to query whether or not they have been getting the “finest bang for our buck”.
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Victorian premier vows ‘no extra buck passing’ after motorcyclist’s demise
Benita Kolovos
The Victorian premier, Ben Carroll, was on ABC Radio Melbourne, following the demise of a motorcyclist after hitting a pothole.
The 71-year-old Ballarat man was killed after placing the pothole and dropping management of his bike on the Western Freeway at Trawalla, close to Ballarat, on Sunday.
Potholes had already emerged as a key political challenge forward of the November election, however this demise has solely heaped additional stress on Carroll. He informed host Mary Gearin the demise was a “tragedy”.
The buck does cease with us. I’ve made it very clear there can’t be any extra buck passing on highway upkeep. That’s why I’ve stated, below my authorities, it was outsourced within the mid-Nineties, I’m going to deliver highway upkeep again inside of presidency.