{"id":915405,"date":"2026-10-04T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915405\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:02:09","slug":"palantir-australia-hires-lobbyist-stephen-conroy-envoy-public-affairs-to-rehabilitate-image-after-coles-contract-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915405\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir Australia hires lobbyist Stephen Conroy, Envoy Public Affairs to rehabilitate image after Coles contract loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been two months since Coles cut ties with American data giant Palantir. The supermarket giant was targeted by woke campaigners angry it was using the software underpinning Donald Trump\u2018s migration deportation raids and the Israeli Defence Forces\u2019 battlefield targeting systems.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this a manifesto it published in April, in which Palantir (and chief executive Alex Karp) called for greater militarisation and implied some cultures were inferior to others, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/north-america\/palantir-s-relentless-rise-may-be-about-to-end-20260709-p60dy0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palantir has a problem<\/a> on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been two months since Coles cut ties with American data giant Palantir. The supermarket giant was targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-915405","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\/915405","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=915405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}