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Albanese centralises AI policy and sets course for mandatory national standards
The Prime Minister has placed artificial intelligence at the centre of government, announcing a new Office of AI and a national framework spanning data centres, copyright, energy, employment and sovereign capability. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has moved to consolidate the Commonwealth’s fragmented approach to artificial intelligence, declaring that Australia must become a maker of AI…
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ANU under national scrutiny after former student details campus antisemitism
The Australian National University has been drawn directly into the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion after a former student described an accumulation of alleged antisemitic incidents, social exclusion and institutional inaction during her years on the Canberra campus. Giving evidence in Melbourne under the pseudonym “Liat”, the former student told the Commission that…
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Hanson articulates One Nation’s governing ambition as conservative contest intensifies
In a wide-ranging interview with former British prime minister Liz Truss, Pauline Hanson outlined an increasingly expansive program on migration, public expenditure, administrative reform and national sovereignty — while rejecting incorporation into the existing Coalition structure. Pauline Hanson has offered one of her clearest accounts yet of how One Nation would seek to exercise political…