{"id":900819,"date":"2026-09-22T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900819\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:16:13","slug":"australia-news-live-pm-launches-un-security-council-bid-calls-for-international-safeguards-on-ai-us-tv-networks-refuse-to-cover-trump-press-events-after-white-house-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900819\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: PM launches UN Security Council bid, calls for international safeguards on AI; US TV networks refuse to cover Trump press events after White House media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth insists Australia is well-positioned to address the issues raised by yesterday\u2019s Intergenerational Report, despite challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do feel that there are challenges, but we are in a good position to address them,\u201d Rishworth told the Today show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the report shows, we\u2019re in a better position than many other countries. But what this has demonstrated is that some of the measures that we are taking are critical, making sure that we\u2019re giving tax cuts to workers, getting our superannuation system in the best position possible, so that people can live in a better retirement with more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/13d9a7843f9cc6ad11451d3c5d501326b69ccda4.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth.Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury report showed <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/an-ageing-australia-must-find-ways-to-pay-for-world-reshaped-by-ai-climate-change-20260921-p60z33.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia would face rising national debt and a heavier tax burden<\/a> unless it fixed its productivity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking sure that we are investing in productivity growth, and we have a big productivity agenda as well,\u201d Rishworth said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis does outline challenges, but also some really important opportunities that, if we play right in the next number of decades, Australia will be in a very good place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth insists Australia is well-positioned to address the issues raised by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-900819","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\/900819","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=900819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}