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The unbiased senator David Pocock says the latest AI agent breach raises severe questions on Australia’s method to synthetic intelligence regulation.

Talking on the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, Pocock mentioned the incident demonstrated the necessity for the federal government to introduce an AI security act.

This isn’t a brand new drawback. For a few years now consultants have been saying we want motion on this. The crossbench has been pushing them. The federal government then mentioned, ‘we’ll have some guardrails, we’ll put them on an internet site’ … that’s not sufficient. Clearly it’s not. It is a enormous problem going through us.

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Qld parliamentary evaluate of legal responsibility invoice chooses to not hear from sexual abuse victims

A Queensland parliamentary committee reviewing a invoice to overturn a ban on lawsuits by youngster sexual abuse victims towards some employers has chosen to not hear from any victim-survivors.

The state Labor MP Meaghan Scanlon tabled the invoice final yr. It reverses a 2024 excessive courtroom judgment ruling that the Catholic church was not legally answerable for the actions of a priest, as a result of they weren’t a direct worker. The judgment additionally applies to all different employers.

Comparable laws has already handed parliaments in Victoria and the ACT.

The Queensland parliament’s justice, integrity and group security committee held a single two-hour listening to into the invoice this morning. The committee, which has a authorities chair, selected solely to listen to from attorneys.

Little one abuse survivor Diane Carpenter mentioned she was “devastated” to not be allowed to be heard by the inquiry and known as for the invoice to be handed.

If the invoice just isn’t handed, many adults who, as kids, have been abused in institutional care, can have no pathway to justice. At the moment, we’ve two courses of victims: those that can entry justice and those that can’t.

A brand new trial date has been set for a British musician and media character accused of violently raping a fan in a resort, after a jury was unable to succeed in a verdict, AAP reviews.

Rapper Yung Filly, who’s legally often known as Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, confronted trial in July over his 2024 encounter with a 20-year-old lady after a Perth nightclub gig.

The 31-year-old was discovered responsible of two assault offences and acquitted of three sexual penetration expenses following an eight-day trial in Western Australia’s district courtroom in July.

The jury was held on three different sexual penetration counts and Barrientos is about to be retried for the fees.

He was not required to look when the case returned to courtroom on Friday and a contemporary trial was listed for 2027.

The trial, starting on 15 June in the identical courtroom, is anticipated to run for eight days.

Choose Linda Black beforehand permitted Barrientos to fluctuate his bail so he may journey residence to the UK whereas he awaits retrial. He’s understood to have departed Perth in late August.

Ought to canine be allowed in pubs? We requested Melbourne pet house owners

With their ballot numbers within the canine home, the Victorian Labor authorities is hoping one thing as universally beloved as pooches will assist them. Labor is promising to alter the foundations to permit folks to convey their pups into pubs.

Our Victorian state correspondent, Benita Kolovos, hit the streets to seek out out what folks considered the thought.

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Who’s James Ashby? Pauline Hanson’s ‘favorite son’

One Nation’s nationwide director James Ashby wields as a lot – if no more – energy over the social gathering as Pauline Hanson herself.

Rafqa Touma speaks to Guardian Australia senior correspondent Sarah Martin about Ashby’s rise from PR flack to Hanson’s “favorite son” as One Nation’s reputation soars.

Australian shares on observe for fourth straight shedding week

The Australian share market has fallen to a three-month low and is headed for its fourth straight week of losses, as oil costs and bond yields each moved greater, AAP reviews.

Close to midday on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 0.43% to eight,664, its lowest degree since mid-June, whereas the broader All Ordinaries had dropped 0.55%, to eight,848.2.

With a number of hours of buying and selling left, the ASX200 was on tempo to complete the week down 0.8%, and was additionally 0.6% decrease for the reason that begin of the yr.

The Australian greenback was altering fingers for 70.12 US cents, from 70.35 US cents at 5pm on Thursday.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says it’s “nonsense” to counsel the federal government might have launched particulars concerning the OpenAI breach when it did as a result of it suited him politically.

He advised Sky Information earlier:

It’s simply nonsense. We have been knowledgeable of this late. That’s one of many points that I raised with Sam Altman once I spoke with him yesterday. I used to be knowledgeable whereas I’ve been in New York.

When pressed if the small print have been launched as quickly as potential, the prime minister mentioned: “Completely”.

This was a singular scenario. … We needed to confirm the info, after which we made the statements, as a matter of urgency.

Albanese mentioned he briefed the opposition as applicable, and mentioned Angus Taylor’s criticism was uncalled for.

He must act extra like a accountable chief of an alternate authorities if he’s going to be taken significantly.

It is a distinctive scenario with out priority.

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Extra Queensland social housing dwellings vacant for longer

Extra social housing dwellings in Queensland are sitting vacant for longer, in response to new information launched by the state authorities.

The common downtime for a social housing dwelling has elevated from 25.1 days final June to 42.7 days in July. Emptiness charges are barely up from about 0.56% to 0.6%.

The info was launched yesterday in response to a parliamentary query.

The variety of folks within the state’s emergency homelessness help scheme – which pays inns and motels to accommodate them – has declined from 3,623 to 2,707. The state made many homeless folks ineligible for the system final yr.

There was a slight improve within the variety of Queenslanders within the state’s public housing system, from 55,913 to 55,998, however a decline within the quantity on the social housing ready record, from 53,874 final September to 46,037 in July.

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One Nation admits utilizing social gathering funds to construct $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s personal property

One Nation has admitted utilizing social gathering funds to construct a $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s personal property.

Guardian Australia revealed on Monday that an organization linked to One Nation – Small Batch Brewing Pty Ltd – was the purchaser of the shed on Ashby’s property regardless of having no income stream and never being licensed to make or promote alcohol.

Ashby resides within the shed on his Yeppoon property whereas he undertakes renovations.

In an electronic mail despatched to members on Thursday evening, the social gathering’s normal supervisor, Kelvin Morton, mentioned social gathering funds had been used to construct the shed.

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