{"id":801349,"date":"2026-07-15T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:14:09","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-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801349\/","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":"

Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayres says the government\u2019s new artificial intelligence laws will be a \u201cworld-leading approach\u201d to AI and large data centres.<\/p>\n

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Ayres\u2019 comments on ABC News\u2019 Afternoon Briefing come after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s speech earlier today which outlined proposed legislation for national standards on AI ensuring companies are transparent in their operations, manage the risks of technology and ensure data centres do not suck power or water away from the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be just customers at the end of a long supply chain of other people\u2019s technology,\u201d Ayres said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to see Australia be part of the construction of this new technology, so it\u2019s done here on our terms.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, when asked about changes to copyright laws and protections for workers, Ayres said that today\u2019s announcement focused on data centres and that Attorney General Michelle Rowland and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth would separately work on those issues.<\/p>\n

In relation to the locations of large new data centres, Ayres said that \u201ceverybody\u2019s going to have to live here together to deliver the right approach for the country\u201d but that the prime minister wanted to \u201cmake sure they are in the right place\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayres says the government\u2019s new artificial intelligence laws will be a \u201cworld-leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-801349","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\/801349","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=801349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801349\/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=801349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}