#Australia
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Australia may let AI companies scrape everything you post online, by default
The Albanese government is weighing changes that would give US tech giants open access to Australian content. Here is what that means for anyone who has ever posted, written or created anything on the internet.
Australia wants to let you turn off the algorithm. Here is what that means.
The Australian government plans to force social media platforms, search engines and AI chatbots to give users a real off-switch for personalised feeds. The prime minister is already expecting a fight.
AI attack ads are flooding Australian social media before Victoria's election. Nobody knows who paid for them.
Alarming videos showing machete robberies and roadside births are targeting Victorian voters online. The ads outspend the major parties on digital platforms, and their true funders are almost impossible to trace.
University of Sydney staff walk out over AI fears as trust survey hits zero
Hundreds of staff picketed and thousands more joined a 24-hour strike after an internal survey found not a single arts faculty member trusted the university to act in their interests.
Australia Proposes Its Biggest Privacy Shake-Up in Years. Here Is What Sparked It.
Facial recognition in shopping centres, 'pervert glasses' on sale at Kmart, and ad-targeting that poisons your social feeds. Australia's proposed Privacy Act changes are a direct response to all three.
Australian University Replaces Psychology Classes With an AI Chatbot
Macquarie University has swapped in-person lectures for an AI-driven 'Virtual Peer' in two mandatory psychology subjects, reigniting a debate about what students are actually paying for.
Australia's robot gap just got a new fix: an AI tool that writes your automation business case for you
A new national platform called AutomationFinder.com.au uses AI to help Australian manufacturers describe, cost and pitch automation projects, without needing to hire an engineering consultant first.
AI-Generated Fake Research Is Flooding Australia's Parliamentary Inquiry System
Submissions to government committees are citing studies that don't exist and attributing them to real academics, with some reports built largely on invented sources.
The Data Centre Story Just Went from Zero to Everywhere on AI2Day
In one week our coverage of AI's power and land problem jumped from one story to six, across three separate outlets. Here is what that shape actually tells us, and what would prove it real.
Australia's Data Centres Could Eat 13% of National Electricity by 2035
A regulator's forecast buried in a routine report reveals how sharply AI infrastructure is set to reshape Australia's power grid, and who gets to decide what gets built where.
Australia's federal government rules out fossil-fuel exemptions for state data centres
Energy minister Chris Bowen says coal and gas can only power new data centres if states prove it is cheaper than renewables, with no special deals for Queensland or the Northern Territory.
Australia bans AI-generated songs from its music charts
The country's peak music body now requires every charting song to be 'substantially human made', after an AI-assisted Madonna cover reached number two nationally.
Australia Forces Tech Giants to Pay for News, and Nine's CEO Thinks AI Makes That Bet Bigger
New Australian laws could make Google and Meta pay levies if they don't cut deals with local newsrooms. Nine Entertainment's boss says it opens a 'world of growth' even as the company trims $160 million in costs.
Australia's PM Tries to Calm State Leaders Over National AI Datacentre Law
Anthony Albanese heads into a national cabinet meeting promising that new federal controls on datacentres will work alongside state rules, not override them. Behind the scenes: power bills, planning fights, and a seven-fold rise in electricity demand.
Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Report Used ChatGPT for Editing, Authors Admit
A $3.48 million government-funded study into age-checking technology contains citations to academic articles that do not appear to exist. The authors say AI did not invent them.