Bowen heading to Saudi Arabia in bid to secure fuel supply
Energy Minister Chris Bowen will head to Saudi Arabia next week in a bid to shore up Australia's fuel supply amid concerns about the squeeze on oil in the Middle East.
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Indigenous Australians minister repeats call for Hanson to apologise
Malarndirri McCarthy has reiterated calls for Pauline Hanson to apologise after remarks resurfaced of the One Nation leader saying Indigenous Australians are the "most primitive race".
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The Indigenous Australians minister said the call went across party lines.
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Coalition senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Kerrynne Liddle, as well as independent Lidia Thorpe have also condemned the remarks Hanson made on a podcast last year.
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So, would the Senate consider censuring Hanson for it, McCarthy responds: "Let's see if she does apologise."
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"I am personally calling out Senator Hanson saying, this is important.
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What you've said is deeply hurtful.
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It's completely wrong," she tells ABC's News Breakfast.
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"We have First Nations people right across Australia who have achieved tremendous skills, who have run for Australia, fought for Australia in the wars, who have excelled in the arts, in the music, in all sorts of spheres, in terms of fashion, you know, those comments were completely baseless."
The chamber last censured Hanson back in March for suggesting there were no "good" Muslims in a television interview.
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Canavan calls for pause on negotiations with OpenAI
Nationals senator Matt Canavan doesn't think the government should be in negotiations with OpenAI if it's trying to "blackmail" it over copyright.
OpenAI's senior VP Ann O'Leary has suggested current copyright laws would prevent the company from building AI training centres in Australia.
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"I don't think we should negotiate with people who want to blackmail us like this," Canavan told News24.
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"A whole reason we want to potentially house these models is because we would be partnering with what has been a friend or an ally, and I don't think friends or allies make these kinds of threats.
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"I don't think OpenAI will get very far with such rhetoric or language.
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We should protect Australian copyright.
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We should protect Australian artists.
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That should be non-negotiable."
Marles downplays reports OpenAI trying to strong arm government on copyright
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles is downplaying reports that OpenAI is threatening to cut investment in Australia if the government refuses to water down copyright laws.
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It comes after The Australian published an interview with OpenAI's senior VP Ann O'Leary this morning.
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O'Leary suggested current copyright laws would prevent OpenAI from building AI training centres in Australia.
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Speaking with News24 this morning, Marles insisted that wasn't a new question and the claim the government was being strong-armed by the company was "overstating" O'Leary's remarks.
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"We do want to see our country take this opportunity.
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It's a historic opportunity for our nation, but we need to be doing it in a way which protects rights holders, and that means news organisations; it means creatives, but actually, I think you can do both," he says.
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Marles met with Open AI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei in San Francisco two weeks ago.
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Hanson condemned for comments about Indigenous Australians
Several senior politicians have been out and about this morning condemning Pauline Hanson after comments resurfaced of the One Nation leader saying Indigenous Australians are the "most primitive race".
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Liberal frontbencher Jonno Duniam called the remarks "appalling".
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I don't know who in a leadership position in this country thinks that's OK," he told ABC's Radio National Breakfast.
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Meanwhile, Housing Minister Clare O'Neil called the comments "ugly, divisive politics".
"If Pauline Hanson wants to take us down the road of Americanising our politics, so people in a family who disagree on political issues can't speak to each other any longer, like this is the pathway to do it," she told Nine.
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Michaelia Cash, who was on the morning television panel alongside O'Neil, said she didn't agree with the remarks and argued it shouldn't act as a distraction from the real issues facing Indigenous Australians.
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Duniam vows Coalition's immigration plan will be 'fully costed'
Shadow Home Affairs Minister Jonno Duniam has declared the opposition's migration policy will be "fully costed" when it's released.
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"When our policy is out, it will be fully costed.
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The economic and human impacts will be there for all to see, and it will be a robust policy, not just a press release," he tells ABC's Radio National Breakfast.
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The Tasmanian frontbencher was comparing his approach to One Nation.
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The minor party released its plan to slash the migration program by 750,000, a plan that was not modelled.
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So, when will the Coalition release this plan?
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Duniam's looming departure from federal politics is acting as the deadline.
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Is there anything in One Nation's policy that the opposition might adopt?
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Duniam points to the idea that migration numbers need to come down.
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"But again, until you see detail, you don't know how it's going to work," he says.
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But Duniam does concede "there is a case" to look at family reunion visas in the context of students, but not with temporary skilled visas.
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Ayres takes aim at GFG for leaving Whyalla's blast furnace in 'state of disrepair'
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Industry Minister Tim Ayres has taken aim at the former owner of the Whyalla steelworks after it was confirmed hundreds of workers will lose their jobs after the blast furnace was shut down.
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Workers have not been able to restart it.
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