{"id":31594,"date":"2025-07-30T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31594\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:09:09","slug":"atlassian-co-founder-scott-farquhar-says-let-ai-do-housing-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31594\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar says let AI do housing approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has bought and lived in some of Australia\u2019s most expensive properties, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/scott-farquhar-to-step-down-as-atlassian-co-ceo-20240425-p5fmlr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlassian billionaire Scott Farquhar<\/a> says the cost and red tape involved makes development a nightmare. And he thinks artificial intelligence could be saviour and play a big part in alleviating housing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/albanese-commits-to-final-week-press-club-address-20250425-p5lu6u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">National Press Club<\/a> in Canberra on Wednesday, Farquhar who is also the chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/angry-members-brand-tech-council-a-billionaires-lunch-club-20241028-p5klvi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tech Council of Australia<\/a>, outlined a series of changes he said would let the country profit from the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has bought and lived in some of Australia\u2019s most expensive properties, but Atlassian billionaire Scott Farquhar says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-31594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}