A government-commissioned report that helped justify Australia's under-16 social media ban contains at least six citation errors that appear to be AI hallucinations, according to a Guardian Australia …
Australian rare book sellers report bulk, price-insensitive orders from Canadian book recycler Zoom Books, raising fears their stock is being scanned and destroyed to train AI models. The practice, kn…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will create a new Office of AI inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and promise faster approvals for AI projects, including data centers, in a Sydney…
Labor MP Ed Husic said weakening copyright law to benefit AI companies would betray the party's ethos of fair pay for fair work, urging stricter rules on big tech firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. The …
Australia's AI Safety Institute has begun testing frontier AI models with technical partners, turning model evaluation into an active government function. Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton announced …