Tag: AI

AI could bust green tape backlog worth $278bn: CEDA

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Artificial intelligence and data sharing could speed up thousands of environmental approvals that have slowed Australia’s $278 billion construction pipeline, according to new research, leading to calls for a...

Husic says innovation-regulation trade-off ‘just garbage’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Former industry minister Ed Husic has dismissed the idea that Australia must choose between encouraging AI innovation and regulating the highest-risk application of the technology as “just garbage”. In...

Stepping through: Australia’s sliding door moment on AI

Posted on   |  by Dr Andrew Charlton
In the 1980s and 1990s, Labor governments under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating confronted an uncomfortable reality: Australia could not drift into prosperity. The old economic settings – protection,...

‘Lean Australian’ on AI purchases, Charlton urges business

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Assistant technology minister Andrew Charlton has called on the private sector to choose Australian AI solutions over foreign alternatives, warning that government policy alone cannot sustain the sector. In...

Tax Office unleashes AI on cumbersome ‘shoebox’ audits

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Artificial intelligence is being deployed by the Tax Office to speed up audits when taxpayers submit a “virtual shoebox” of supporting documents, while thousands of its staff are now...

Australians back copyright deal to take part in AI boom

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A majority of Australians would back changes to copyright laws to allow companies like Google, Anthropic and OpenAI to train their models locally, provided creators whose work is used...