{"id":800670,"date":"2026-07-14T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800670\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:22:10","slug":"australia-news-live-pm-creates-ai-office-amid-dire-warning-from-experts-on-jobs-data-centres-uni-fees-to-hike-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/800670\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: PM creates AI office amid dire warning from experts on jobs, data centres; uni fees to hike for hundreds of thousands of students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has ruled out forming a coalition with Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation party, after he was repeatedly asked if he would go further than saying there was no plan for a deal.<\/p>\n

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Appearing on ABC\u2019s 730 Report on Tuesday for the first time since he said the rival party\u2019s policies would lead to \u201can eternity of pain\u201d, Taylor was asked four times by host Sarah Ferguson if he would categorically reject the possibility of forming government with One Nation.<\/p>\n

Initially insisting that the Coalition had \u201cabsolutely no plan for a deal with One Nation to form government\u201d, Taylor was asked again: \u201cDoesn\u2019t leaving it unruled-out, leave it on the table?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ruling it out,\u201d Taylor replied. \u201cThere\u2019s no plan,\u201d adding that \u201cThe reason is simple: that they would, One Nation would, as a government, leave us with an eternity of pain, and they have a grab bag of policies where even a small subset of them would take this country into a fiscal crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Taylor was obliged to step in and shut down a proposal from South Australian Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin, who suggested the party should work \u201chand in glove\u201d with One Nation to defeat Labor<\/a>, even going as far as agreeing not to compete in the same electorates in a form of \u201cseat swap\u201d.<\/p>\n

While Taylor and many senior Opposition MPs have, until recently, been careful not to alienate voters drifting to One Nation by being too harsh, many in the party have sharpened their attacks, including West Australian MP Andrew Hastie, whose own seat is under direct threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has ruled out forming a coalition with Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation party, after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-800670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800670","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=800670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}