Independent Senator for the ACT.
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Are we sleepwalking into the AI era? 🤖📱
We unpack the hidden costs of Big Tech, from addictive algorithms to the environmental toll of new AI data centres.
Links below:
Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/6yFm...
YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I94...
Apple - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...
Warnings of a super El Niño are a reminder that climate preparedness can’t wait.
We need investment in disaster readiness including firefighting capability like drones, stronger community resilience & electrification.
Delay now means higher costs later.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
JRG is a failed program entrenching inequality & lumping students from law to commerce with crippling debt.
It's been in place for longer now under the Albanese Govt than under Morrison Govt.
Reform is overdue & desperately urgent but progressing at a snails pace.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/16/s...
Appalled but not surprised to see govt caving to the gas companies.
This just makes me more determined to go harder on our campaign to get a fair return on our gas through a 25% tax on gas export revenue.
Head to ourgas.com.au to add your voice.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
The gas industry is panicking & spending millions to protect billions in profit from exporting our gas.
But no amount of glossy advertising will stop Australians demanding a fair return - a 25% gas export tax to make exporters finally pay their share.
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Gas companies that export 🇦🇺 gas are about to make windfall profits after strikes on Iran & we have no plan to capture that value for 🇦🇺
To fix this, we need a 25% tax on gas exports that would raise billions of💲of revenue & ensure that when prices rise, 🇦🇺 benefits
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Yesterday I asked Anthropic about their plans for data centres in 🇦🇺 & the impact on water and electricity demand.
We hear a lot about the potential of AI & data centres, but not much about the massive risks & need for safeguards against the misuse of AI & data centres guzzling our precious water.
Alan Kohler talking about the urgent need to tackle inequality. The major parties talk about it a lot but don't seem to want to do what it'll take:
💸 changes to CGT discount on investment properties
💸 start taxing wealth more than work
💸 get a fair return for our natural resources
The ANAO's audit of ‘Renew ANU’ highlights how much unnecessary damage was done to our national university and its people.
I'll keep pushing for reform to ensure that this kind of leadership & governance failure can't happen again.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.
Evan Frondorf, a senior executive at Anthropic, tells Senate committee the AI giant would invest heavily in new power supply to support its data centres.
Australian National University's leadership approved a controversial $250 million cost-cutting program without a clear understanding of the problem it was trying to solve or the risks involved, a repo...
