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Albanese says he’ll put considerations about AI to Trump
Sarah Basford Canales
The intergenerational report additionally mentioned Australia was properly positioned to profit from AI however its influence on many industries – such because the labour market – had been too early to forecast.
The financial and social implications of AI are anticipated to be profound however the particular impacts will depend upon the evolution of the know-how, how deeply and broadly AI is adopted, and the way it will likely be used.
Australia is a number one vacation spot globally for datacentre funding and has seen a close to doubling of capital expenditure on this space for the reason that 2023 IGR.
It comes as Albanese shall be face-to-face with Donald Trump at a gala reception hosted by the US president through the high-level week. Trump has referred to as the fears surrounding AI a “hoax” and mentioned a slowdown within the AI race by the United States might contain the nation shedding floor to China.
Albanese mentioned he would put considerations about AI to Trump.
We have a view about synthetic intelligence that there must be acceptable safeguards put in place, and I’ll advocate that privately, the identical as I’ll publicly.
I’ve a really optimistic and constructive relationship with the president, and I’ll interact respectfully and constructively with him.
The prime minister will spend the week in New York City for a United Nations local weather summit, the place he can even maintain talks on international conflicts and AI.
Trump has mentioned he would appoint an AI chief and create an “AI Force” to assist monitor the know-how, although he gave virtually no particulars about both plan.
– with AAP
Key occasions
Penry Buckley
NSW home violence rental reforms in impact from at the moment
Rental reforms which make it simpler for victim-survivors of home violence to depart a rental property in NSW are in impact from at the moment, the state authorities says.
Under the modifications, victim-survivors now not have to notify individuals they share a lease with they’re leaving a rental property, can’t be held answerable for injury brought on by home and household violence, and should be requested for permission to publish pictures of the property that present their belongings. The authorities says victim-survivors have now have broader rights to alter locks with out landlord consent.
The NSW honest buying and selling minister, Anoulack Chanthivong, mentioned the reforms “ship on the Minns Labor authorities’s promise to make renting fairer by changing unsafe, outdated legal guidelines with sensible, compassionate protections which put victim-survivors first”.
During debate on the legal guidelines, which handed final yr, the cross bench and home violence advocates raised considerations that last-minute modifications to legal guidelines on pets in leases, making it simpler for landlords to forestall pets, would make it more durable for DV victim-survivors who wish to discover a protected place to go together with their animals.
Domestic Violence NSW Deputy CEO, Pia Birac, has mentioned at the moment’s modifications “take away a few of the sensible boundaries that may make it more durable for ladies to depart violence and rebuild their lives”.
Now we have to construct consciousness and understanding of those new protections so ladies can confidently train their rights and the professionals round them can assist them each step of the way in which.
Dan Tehan says gas excise lower when oil value is excessive a ‘wise’ plan
Dan Tehan, the shadow minister for vitality, mentioned Gallagher’s criticism of the Coalition’s gas plan wasn’t honest.
Tehan mentioned the decision for a 50% lower to the gas excise every time barrels of oil high US$100 was a “good, wise, sensible measure” that may assist Australians cope with a price of residing disaster. He instructed RN:
[What] I might say to Anthony Albanese and the Labor occasion is get out amongst the individuals and see what’s taking place in your electorates as a result of individuals are hurting due to price of residing …
We have the self-discipline to have the ability to do the coverage work to verify we are able to offset insurance policies like this so it received’t be inflationary and it’ll present a lot wanted aid to individuals, they usually want it now.
Tehan maintained the plan can be funded by the promised cuts to the tobacco excise, which might enable the plan to “not be inflationary in any respect”.
Finance minister calls Coalition vow to chop gas excise an ‘unfunded’
Katy Gallagher, the federal finance minister, mentioned the federal government doesn’t suppose a Coalition plan to halve the gas excise every time oil costs skyrocket is a “good concept”, saying it’s an “unfunded, uncounted promise” from Angus Taylor.
The authorities halved the gas excise for 3 months earlier this yr amid the conflict in Iran after which discounted it at a small charge till August. Taylor has proposed to institute that plan every time Brent crude oil averages US$100 a barrel over a two-week interval.
Gallagher instructed RN Breakfast the federal government was not contemplating the identical:
Obviously we’ve helped when the conflict began with some modifications to the gas excise however we’ve shifted, and [are] together with within the finances, to offering extra everlasting price of residing preparations, together with by the tax system, to ensure that that ongoing cost-of-living assistance is there completely, not simply in these one-off preparations, which, once we’ve acquired larger inflation, may very well be troublesome within the financial system.
She mentioned the federal government hasn’t been contemplating additional cuts to the gas excise.
Our choices have been constructed and baked into the finances to ensure that that cost-of-living assistance is everlasting. You know, the earlier this conflict within the Middle East stops, the higher.
New diplomatic postings for Cairo, Port Moresby and Dili
Foreign minister Penny Wong introduced the appointments of three individuals to guide Australia’s diplomatic posts in Cairo, Port Moresby and Dili, in addition to the consulate in New York as we reported earlier.
Wong mentioned Joel McGregor would function Australia’s subsequent ambassador to Egypt; Jamie Isbister can be the following excessive commissioner in Papua New Guinea and Lucienne Manton can be the brand new ambassador to Timor-Leste.
Wong mentioned in an announcement:
Australia’s diplomatic community allows us to advertise our pursuits in peace, safety, commerce, funding and different areas of cooperation.
Australia takes the planet as it’s and seeks to form it for the higher – these diplomatic appointments will deepen Australia’s connections overseas and enhance our skill to affect the place it issues.
Petra Stock
NSW to guide Australia with photo voltaic panel recycling mandate
New South Wales plans to introduce Australia’s first obligatory photo voltaic panel recycling scheme to make sure the supplies are recovered relatively than despatched to landfill.
The state launched session on the design of the stewardship scheme on Monday amid extended delays on the nationwide degree.
Around 14,000 tonnes of photo voltaic panel waste was generated in NSW every year, which was anticipated to develop to 89,000 tonnes by 2045. The proposed scheme would require photo voltaic panel producers to take accountability for the end-of-life administration of their merchandise, serving to fund assortment, recycling and useful resource restoration.
NSW setting minister, Penny Sharpe, mentioned:
NSW has embraced rooftop photo voltaic, and now we’re ensuring these panels don’t turn out to be tomorrow’s landfill drawback. Solar panels include useful supplies that may be recovered and put again to work.
“NSW is getting on with the job,” Gayle Sloan, the chief government of the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia. The state was implementing obligatory battery stewardship and supposed to finalise photo voltaic panel regulation by the top of 2026.
She mentioned:
The photo voltaic mannequin can then be adopted by different jurisdictions or transition to a future Commonwealth scheme. That is tangible reform: set up the principles, set a deadline and create a pathway for nationwide motion.
Read extra on the delayed implementation of a nationwide scheme right here:
Albanese says he’ll put considerations about AI to Trump
Sarah Basford Canales
The intergenerational report additionally mentioned Australia was properly positioned to profit from AI however its influence on many industries – such because the labour market – had been too early to forecast.
The financial and social implications of AI are anticipated to be profound however the particular impacts will depend upon the evolution of the know-how, how deeply and broadly AI is adopted, and the way it will likely be used.
Australia is a number one vacation spot globally for datacentre funding and has seen a close to doubling of capital expenditure on this space for the reason that 2023 IGR.
It comes as Albanese shall be face-to-face with Donald Trump at a gala reception hosted by the US president through the high-level week. Trump has referred to as the fears surrounding AI a “hoax” and mentioned a slowdown within the AI race by the United States might contain the nation shedding floor to China.
Albanese mentioned he would put considerations about AI to Trump.
We have a view about synthetic intelligence that there must be acceptable safeguards put in place, and I’ll advocate that privately, the identical as I’ll publicly.
I’ve a really optimistic and constructive relationship with the president, and I’ll interact respectfully and constructively with him.
The prime minister will spend the week in New York City for a United Nations local weather summit, the place he can even maintain talks on international conflicts and AI.
Trump has mentioned he would appoint an AI chief and create an “AI Force” to assist monitor the know-how, although he gave virtually no particulars about both plan.
– with AAP
Jim Chalmers to launch intergenerational report with AI warnings
Sarah Basford Canales
Australia faces a extra “fragmented and unsure planet” within the coming a long time however key coverage choices will set future generations up properly for the “AI revolution”, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, says.
Chalmers will current the seventh intergenerational report (IGR) on Monday, detailing forecasts for the influence of recent applied sciences on society and the financial system, together with extra warnings concerning the nation’s getting old inhabitants and declining fertility charges.
It comes because the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, meets with planet leaders within the United States this week to debate a “international framework” for the rollout of AI, urging the “massive two giants” – the US and China – to work within the curiosity of humanity.
In a speech to unveil the most recent report, the treasurer will warn of the threats on the horizon in a extra harmful, unpredictable and divided planet.
The planet is changing into extra harmful. More unpredictable. More unequal. And extra divided.
These aren’t simply particular person threads however a part of an even bigger fraying of that intergenerational promise of higher occasions.
Chalmers mentioned an IGR has by no means been launched at a time with “politics this fraught, or a future much less sure”.
Yet this IGR exhibits we’re higher positioned than our friends in virtually each regard.
The international and generational dangers are critical, however Australia’s alternatives are infinite.
The report’s forecasts present Australia’s inhabitants is projected to sluggish, with an estimated inhabitants of 39.3m by 2065-66, 1.8m fewer individuals than the earlier report’s forecast.
Much of the slowdown in inhabitants development was tied to decrease fertility charges as ladies continued to have fewer youngsters.
Albanese launches bid for Australia for two-year seat on UN safety council
Anthony Albanese launched a proper bid for Australia to serve a two-year time period on highly effective UN physique in 2029 and 2030.
A vote for the spot received’t be held till mid 2028, however lobbying efforts will intensify through the prime minister’s go to to New York for the UN normal meeting.
The prime minister mentioned Australia’s function on the council would be capable of profit bizarre residents.
“Engagement with the planet issues. It issues as a result of it makes a distinction to the price of residing, to inflation, to Australians’ lifestyle,” he instructed reporters in New York on Monday, Australian time.
That is why we are able to’t afford to not be engaged with the planet, as a result of it has a direct influence on the standard of lifetime of Australians on a day-to-day foundation.
We have a chance by this potential seat on the UN Security Council to play a key function in shaping the worldwide points that basically matter to Australians.
Australia has served on the safety council 5 occasions for the reason that UN was established following the second planet conflict – the newest stint was in 2013 and 2014, the place Australia was in a position to lead a response to the Russian downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Albanese mentioned the function Australia performed throughout that interval was proof of what a spot on the council might obtain.
We do want to face as much as the Middle East dispute. I believe there’s a function for center powers to interact, and Australia has carried out that as we’ve engaged with the conflict in Ukraine within the coalition of the keen.
Former NSW police officer’s double homicide trial to get underneath means
Kat Wong
The trial of a former NSW police officer accused of murdering two males is ready to start in Sydney.
Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of homicide and one cost of aggravated break and enter over the deaths of TV presenter Jesse Baird, 26, and his accomplice Luke Davies, 29, in February 2024.
His case has confronted ongoing delays since prices had been laid, however at the moment, the 31-year-old’s trial will lastly get underneath means.
On Monday, a jury shall be chosen at NSW supreme courtroom on King Street.
Depending on how lengthy the empanelment course of takes the courtroom could hear the crown’s opening assertion within the afternoon.
Justice Natalie Adams will preside over the trial, which is slated to go for 2 to 3 months and embody a short of proof with greater than 200 witnesses.
The case has acquired vital media consideration and Lamarre-Condon’s trial can be anticipated to draw substantial public curiosity.
Former high aide to Lachlan Murdoch will get senior diplomatic publish in NY
Anthony Albanese has named former News Corp government Siobhan McKenna as Australia’s subsequent consul-general in New York.
The prime minister introduced her appointment whereas launching Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nation’s safety council in New York on Sunday. She will change Heather Ridout, previously chief government of the Australian Industry Group, following the expiry of her four-year time period in December.
McKenna, the chair of Australia Post, has additionally chaired the National Broadband Network along with her time as CEO of broadcasting at News Corp. The prime minister mentioned McKenna would “deliver a substantial amount of monetary and financial capability to the function”.
When reporters requested about McKenna’s time at Murdoch press – describing her as “Lachlan Murdoch’s most likely closest aide for an extended, very long time” – and whether or not the prime minister had sought assurances she wouldn’t “proceed to foyer or cope with Mr Murdoch in advancing industry pursuits”, he mentioned:
Siobhan McKenna is an expert, and she is going to do an impressive job representing Australia and the Australian authorities right here in New York. And the truth that she has expertise in each the non-public sector and the general public sector is an excellent factor. I’m somebody who helps individuals being appointed on benefit. Siobhan McKenna has been appointed on benefit.
Good morning and welcome to Guardian Australia’s stay information protection for Monday.
Jim Chalmers will launch the most recent intergenerational report, whereas abroad Anthony Albanese has appointed a former Murdoch government to a high diplomatic publish.
Stay tuned.
