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🇦🇺 Hello from POLITICO Australia.
We’re here to be your guide to the people, policy fights and political dynamics shaping Canberra and its global relationships.
That starts every morning with Canberra Playbook — and the first edition is out now 🧵👇
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When an artificial intelligence agent goes rogue and accesses Medicare statistics, who’s responsible?
The answer under Australian law is probably no one.
Canberra Playbook looks at why it's time to sort that out 👇
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has a Ukrainian security pact on his mind in New York — but Australia is playing defense with a key ally in another battle.
How is Labor dealing with U.S. meddling on the digital front?
Canberra Playbook finds out 👇
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers is concerned that Australian officials and voters are too focused on short-term thinking, losing the ability to think and work collectively on long-term challenges.
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Deeper cuts to migration, called for by the Coalition and One Nation, would be “absolutely diabolical” for Australia’s economy and add to intergenerational pressures, Treasurer Jim Chalmers warns.
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The intergenerational report showed Australia has a baby problem and the cost of raising a child is an obvious part of that.
But how much have those costs risen and what ideas are being floated to help?
Canberra Playbook finds out: 👇
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Australia’s Defence Department has quietly doubled the number of years personnel leaving the force are able to be called upon during times of war or other emergency, lifting the commitment period from five to 10 years.
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers is doing the rounds trying to sell his intergenerational report but faces at least one obvious challenge.
Does anyone believe forecasts looking 40 years ahead?
Canberra Playbook finds out 👇
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The chair of Australia's Productivity Commission says state-by-state rules, weak investment and patchy technology adoption are holding back the growth needed to lift living standards.
Meet the woman who wants to make productivity cool again.
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers' second intergenerational report today will show an Australia that continues to age and with fertility rates falling further and faster than expected.
What does that mean for the next 40 years?
Canberra Playbook has the detail 👇
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Federal public servants are heading for a showdown over artificial intelligence conditions for the next three years, as unions say the government isn’t matching its promise to protect workers’ rights with action.
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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has pulled his first bit of magic over migration.
What's the next trick, Houdini?
Canberra Playbook looks at what's really happening👇
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Immigration Minister Tony Burke is on a hiding to nothing when he releases Labor's migration policy.
How can he cut migration numbers and please so many vested interests?
Canberra Playbook ponders that question and more 👇
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic's CEO has called for a slower, more coordinated approach to the safe rollout of the technology — the company's international envoy says Australia can help.
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Most Australians knew One Nation was spoiling for a fight on its signature migration policy.
Few would have expected Pauline Hanson to grab the spotlight so dramatically — and for all the wrong reasons.
Canberra Playbook looks at the fallout 👇
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Calls to slow the race to super intelligence might give Australia the chance to catch up while it wrestles with the idea of data centers.
PLUS: The challenging numbers behind migration policy reform.
Canberra Playbook looks behind the headlines 👇
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In September 2001, then Prime Minister John Howard faced two weeks that would define 20 years of Australian immigration politics. Today he reflects on the Tampa affair and the 9/11 terror attacks in Washington.
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Sitting weeks are normally a circus in Canberra but this week has been especially wild.
Think unhinged tiffs, rants and some shameless responses over that invite-only grants program.
Canberra Playbook looks at why they need a day off 👇
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SA Premier Peter Malinauskas has delivered an extraordinary intervention on migration policy, rejecting "appeasement" of Pauline Hanson and One Nation.
What does it mean for the federal government?
Canberra Playbook has the analysis: 👇
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