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Update · 04:17 pm AEST · 25 September 2026

Coalition says Australia should embrace US AI companies, not fight them

By The Financial Register

The Coalition rejected the Prime Minister's approach to artificial intelligence. Deputy Liberal Leader Jane Hume told ABC News Australia that Australia should be embracing American AI companies rather than picking fights with them.

Hume said the government's warnings about AI risks do nothing to protect Australians from the technology.

The irony here is that you actually need a This should hasten, if anything, our move over in the US to less finger-wagging and trump one-upmanship and more about embracing these AI companies and bringing them here so that we can have frontier models providing sovereign capability

Jane Hume, Deputy Liberal Leader

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