Updated at\u00a019.51 EDT<\/p>\n
Key events<\/p>\n
Greens call for debate on frontier AI models that \u2018may make us extinct\u2019<\/p>\n
The Greens have gone from zero to a hundred in the Senate this morning, immediately moving to suspend standing orders to push the government to debate and legislate safety testing and transparency on frontier AI systems that could make us go extinct.<\/p>\n
Senator David Shoebridge is moving the motion which also calls for the government to push for a global treaty on AI regulation with middle powers, including Canada, Singapore and France.<\/p>\n
He tells the Senate the government could legislate an \u201cethical AI industry\u201d that constrains the frontier model.<\/p>\n
This morning Sam Altman and Elon Musk called for the sector to pump the breaks on \u201creckless\u201d AI development<\/p>\n
Shoebridge says:<\/p>\n
double quotation markI\u2019ll tell you what the Greens think we should be talking about, not the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill, but the fact that major players from the AI industry across the world are saying we need to slow down development of frontier models because it may make us extinct \u2026<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t believe anyone would vote against this motion, and I can\u2019t believe Labor would say \u2018no we don\u2019t want to deal with an extinction risk\u2019.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a>\u2018Fierce intellect, integrity, compassion\u2019: first female high court justice, Mary Gaudron remembered<\/p>\n Mary Gaudron, Australia\u2019s first female justice of the high court of Australia, has been remembered as a woman who broke down barriers for women across Australia, for her intellect and courage.<\/p>\n In a social media post, the governor general, Sam Mostyn, wrote Gaudron\u2019s distinguished career \u201ctransformed Australia\u2019s legal landscape\u201d.<\/p>\n double quotation markFrom her upbringing in Moree NSW to her advocacy for equal pay and her distinguished service on the nation\u2019s highest court, Justice Gaudron brought her fierce intellect, integrity, compassion and a deep commitment to justice to every role she held.<\/p>\n The social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, also paid tribute to Gaudron on social media this morning:<\/p>\n double quotation markMary Gaudron changed Australia\u2019s legal landscape. She fought for equal pay, broke down barriers for women in law and public service, and went on to become the first woman appointed to the High Court of Australia. Her intellect, integrity and courage made our country fairer and opened doors for generations of women who followed.<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s first female high court judge, Mary Gaudron, in 2011. Photograph: AAPShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.14 EDT<\/p>\n Victorians right to question \u2018bang for our buck\u2019 on road maintenance: Carroll<\/p>\n Following from our last post \u2026<\/p>\n In the 50km zone around where the motorcyclist\u2019s crash occurred, the road condition deteriorated from 1% poor or very poor in 2022 to 44% in poor or very poor condition in 2024.<\/p>\n Ben Carroll was pressed on how the Victorian government had let this occur. He said:<\/p>\n double quotation markWe have had a range of climatic events. We have bigger, heavier trucks travelling on our road network more than ever before. Having said that, business as usual on our roads and road resurfacing has not worked \u2026 That is why you look at the example in Western Australia, they brought road maintenance back inside of government after it was outsourced, and that has seen a vastly bigger improvement \u2026<\/p>\n Carroll said the state government had invested $1bn into road maintenance and road resurfacing every year and that Victorians were right to question whether they were getting the \u201cbest bang for our buck\u201d.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.21 EDT<\/p>\n Victorian premier vows \u2018no more buck passing\u2019 after motorcyclist\u2019s pothole death The Victorian premier, Ben Carroll, was on ABC Radio Melbourne, following the death of a motorcyclist after hitting a pothole.<\/p>\n The 71-year-old Ballarat man was killed after striking the pothole and losing control of his bike on the Western Highway at Trawalla, near Ballarat, on Sunday.<\/p>\n Potholes had already emerged as a key political issue ahead of the November election, but this death has only heaped further pressure on Carroll. He told host Mary Gearin the death was a \u201ctragedy\u201d.<\/p>\n double quotation markThe buck does stop with us. I\u2019ve made it very clear there cannot be any more buck passing on road maintenance. That\u2019s why I have said, under my government, it was outsourced in the mid-1990s, I\u2019m going to bring road maintenance back inside of government.<\/p>\n Victorian premier Ben Carroll. Photograph: Joel Carrett\/AAPShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.19 EDT<\/p>\n Property developer Jean Nassif to appear before NSW Icac<\/p>\n Property developer Jean Nassif is expected to appear before the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) via video link from Lebanon this afternoon.<\/p>\n Nassif, who withdrew from a scheduled appearance on 4 September after providing a medical certificate, left Australia for Lebanon in 2022 after an investigation found dozens of defects<\/a> in three separate <\/a>residential developments constructed by his company Toplace.<\/p>\n As part of its investigation into allegations against people associated with the NSW Liberals, Icac is examining the allegation that Liberal figures anticipated receiving $2m in prohibited donations from Nassif in exchange for political outcomes, including damage to the career of NSW Liberal minister, David Elliott, and the removal of the building commissioner, David Chandler.<\/p>\n In June 2023, NSW police issued an arrest warrant<\/a> for Nassif in relation to allegations of financial wrongdoing and \u201clarge-scale fraud\u201d at Toplace, but he has never been charged.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, his daughter, Ashlyn Nassif, avoided jail time after pleading guilty in June to providing false or misleading information, the court heard she was under pressure from her father, to obtain a $150m construction loan.<\/p>\n He has previously denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Hanson\u2019s comments on Albanese\u2019s mum \u2018completely inappropriate\u2019: Taylor<\/p>\n Angus Taylor says Pauline Hanson should apologise to Anthony Albanese over her comments criticising his mother for living in public housing for several decades.<\/p>\n The comments were from a podcast episode that aired in February.<\/p>\n Taylor tells reporters that the comments were \u201ccompletely inappropriate\u201d:<\/p>\n double quotation markTaylor: Oh, they were inappropriate. Family should be off limits when it comes to politics.<\/p>\n Reporter: Should she apologise?<\/p>\n Taylor: It\u2019s very simple and she should. She should, absolutely. I mean, family should be off limits. And they were completely inappropriate comments.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.45 EDT<\/p>\n Taylor asks for a please-explain on One Nation\u2019s migration policy<\/p>\n Angus Taylor says Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce and David Farley need to explain their own migration policy, because he, for one, doesn\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n But he seems to want to avoid criticising it as hard as some of his colleagues.<\/p>\n At a press conference just outside Canberra, Taylor is asked multiple times what he thinks about the policy and says there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered.<\/p>\n But his deputy, Jane Hume, who\u2019s standing next to him, this morning said that the policy would sent the country into recession.<\/p>\n Taylor says:<\/p>\n double quotation markWell, I don\u2019t know what the need of overseas migration numbers are [that] they proposing. Well, they\u2019re not, the numbers are not there year by year. What is it going to do to the overseas migration? And what does that mean for a publican in Tamworth, a farmer in Narrandera or Griffith? And what does that mean for a builder in Ipswich?<\/p>\n One Nation says its policy will lead to \u201cnet-negative\u201d overseas migration for the first three years, after which the Nom will stay at 130,000.<\/p>\n Angus Taylor and Jane Hume. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.47 EDT<\/p>\n What\u2019s in One Nation\u2019s migration policy?<\/p>\n The headline is that there will be net-negative migration for three years, with 750,000 temporary visas cut \u2013 primarily international students and the families of skilled visa holders.<\/p>\n Pauline Hanson says universities will get a share of up to 100,000 international students each year, while graduate visas, which allow international students to temporarily remain and work in Australia will be cut down to 20,000 and be valid for only 18 months.<\/p>\n To provide a little context, more than 370,000 international student visas were issued by the government in the financial year 2024-25.<\/p>\n Hanson is also proposing a new \u201chigh-value\u201d study visa for PhD and select postgrad research students, which would allow them to bring dependents or family.<\/p>\n For temporary skilled workers, family members will now be banned from getting visas with a skilled worker, while existing family members will be allowed to remain until their visa expires, which won\u2019t be renewed. The party says this will drop the number of temporary skilled visas \u2013 including their family members \u2013 from more than 260,000 to 160,000 over three years.<\/p>\n Hanson says the regions won\u2019t be affected because existing backpacker and Palm scheme visas won\u2019t change.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.31 EDT<\/p>\n Labor MP says Anthropic and OpenAI calls should be met with scepticism<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s assistant technology minister has urged scepticism of AI companies\u2019 calls for a pause on development.<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s chief has warned AI bots could swarm the internet within a year and his calls to \u201cslow the pace\u201d of AI development gained support from the head of OpenAI and Elon Musk<\/a>, in a rare show of unity.<\/p>\n Andrew Charlton, assistant technology minister, has told the Sydney Dialogue summit not to focus on companies\u2019 public commentary given their \u201cextremely strong financial incentives\u201d to maintain the trajectory of development. He said:<\/p>\n double quotation markI am not in favour of leaving it to the companies and I\u2019m not in favour of leaving it to the superpowers \u2026 I take that at face value but I don\u2019t think we should care very much about what individual chief executives say or what individual executives claim they want to happen. I think we should care about what is actually happening.<\/p>\n Andrew Charlton. Photograph: Jeremy Ng\/AAP<\/p>\n Charlton recently went to a G20 meeting on AI and said safety and responsible use was a \u201cbig topic of conversation\u201d among Australia\u2019s economic partners.<\/p>\n He said Australia was not setting AI safety measures in response to one forecast of AI ability but to address a range of possible outcomes, including some \u201cextremely dangerous\u201d scenarios.<\/p>\n Read more about Anthropic\u2019s calls here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.10 EDT<\/p>\n Pensioners to pay for half of Labor’s $3bn private health savings<\/p>\n Modelling by the parliamentary budget office shows half the expected $3bn in savings to reduce the private health insurance rebate to over 65s will be paid for by pensioners.<\/p>\n The figures, commissioned by independent MP and doctor Monique Ryan, found that $1.6bn of the total budget savings would be met by the nearly 1.5 million age pensioners who hold private health insurance.<\/p>\n Private Healthcare Australia some retirees will face health insurance cost increases of more than $1,600 per year, but Labor says it only expects private health insurance for over 65s to increase by up to $250 a year and see 44,000 abandon their cover.<\/p>\n Ryan says:<\/p>\n double quotation markThe PBO has confirmed what older Australians and the private health sector have feared: these cuts will disproportionately affect those least able to afford them.<\/p>\n After paying taxes throughout their working lives and maintaining private health insurance to meet their health needs as they age, age pension recipients will bear the brunt of the government\u2019s changes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.51 EDT<\/p>\n One Nation migration policy\u2019s \u2018terrible impact\u2019 on farmers<\/p>\n One Nation\u2019s migration plan could drive up food costs and stop farmers from planting crops, or leave some unharvested, warns the National Farmers Federation.<\/p>\n Its president, Hamish McIntyre told the Today show that one in seven farm workers is a working holiday maker \u2013 mostly backpackers.<\/p>\n double quotation markIt\u2019s a terrible impact [on] us \u2026 It\u2019s going to prohibit us from planting some of these crops. We rely on these people.<\/p>\n We won\u2019t be able to take the risks to spend all the money, farmers, we spend up front to produce these crops, so we\u2019re not going to take a risk if we can\u2019t harvest them.<\/p>\n Pauline Hanson has claimed backpackers and the Pacific Australia Labor Mobility (PALM) scheme won\u2019t be impacted by the net-negative migration numbers.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.48 EDT<\/p>\n Hanson running out of groups of pick on, says Murray Watt<\/p>\n Murray Watt says Pauline Hanson\u2019s comments to a podcast criticising Anthony Albanese\u2019s mother for staying in social housing over several decades are \u201cdespicable\u201d and she should apologise.<\/p>\n Joining ABC RN Breakfast, the environment minister says Hanson is punching down on people who deserve support, also pointing to her attacks on Andrew Hastie.<\/p>\n Watt says Hanson is starting to \u201cquickly run out of groups in the community that she doesn\u2019t pick on\u201d:<\/p>\n double quotation markI think an apology is absolutely needed from Pauline Hanson for yet another remark that she makes, punching down on people in our community who deserve our support \u2026 the idea that you would pick on someone\u2019s late mother who died more than 20 years ago is cruel and despicable.<\/p>\n I mean, I\u2019m starting to lose count of the number of groups within our community who Pauline Hanson is picking on. She thinks workers are lazy, she doesn\u2019t like migrants. She says parents who use childcare aren\u2019t doing the right thing. Women experiencing domestic violence, she says that\u2019s a two-way street.<\/p>\n Murray Watt. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.48 EDT<\/p>\n Joyce stands by Hanson\u2019s comments disparaging Albanese\u2019s mother<\/p>\n Barnaby Joyce has defended Pauline Hanson\u2019s comments that a person shouldn\u2019t be allowed to live in public housing for multiple decades because there isn\u2019t enough housing.<\/p>\n Hanson, in a podcast in February, criticised the length of time Anthony Albanese\u2019s mother had lived in housing commission, and then said it was \u201cpathetic\u201d that the PM kept bringing up the story.<\/p>\n Joyce told Sunrise this morning that Albanese\u2019s log cabin story doesn\u2019t wash any more:<\/p>\n double quotation mark[Hanson] didn\u2019t say that she [Albanese\u2019s mother] was a bad woman, or that she had done some form of theft or anything like that. The question was put to her about public housing, and I stand by what she said \u2026 The premise of that question was, should people live in public housing for ever? Which the answer is no, because we just don\u2019t have enough \u2026<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know the prime minister\u2019s mother. I\u2019m sure she\u2019s a very, very good woman \u2026 But the whole, you know, log cabin story of living in a housing commission home that the prime minister rolls out over and over again for a person who owns multiple houses \u2013 and good luck to him, and God bless him, and he\u2019s about to go live in a $4.5m house on the Central Coast \u2013 it just doesn\u2019t wash.<\/p>\n![\"Benita](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789345455_309_Benita_Kolovos.png\")
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