Jun 5, 2026 \u2013 8.50am<\/p>\n
It was in the middle of Tuesday afternoon that Sally McManus, secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, accidentally nailed Australia\u2019s great artificial intelligence conundrum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe union movement\u2019s not saying AI is a terrible thing. It could be a really fantastic thing, and we\u2019d like that to happen,\u201d McManus told a sold-out audience at The Australian Financial Review AI summit in Sydney. \u201cWe\u2019d like that to happen for our country, and we\u2019d like to see a time when jobs are more interesting, when we can somehow tax those big companies, and we can share the benefits, and we can all be working a three-day working week<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jun 5, 2026 \u2013 8.50am It was in the middle of Tuesday afternoon that Sally McManus, secretary of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-716023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716023","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=716023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}