Crossbenchers urge Labor to act immediately on deepfakes and misinformation before next election | Australian politics

Independents have urged the government to act immediately on deepfakes and disinformation as the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC ) issues a warning about AI and foreign interference in the upcoming election. David Pocock and Kate Chaney have written to the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the special minister of state, Don Farrell, calling for “truth…

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Coalition cuts to public service and ‘wasteful spending’ won’t be announced until after election, Dutton suggests | Peter Dutton

The scale of the Coalition’s planned spending cuts won’t be revealed before the federal election, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has suggested. Dutton on Sunday also repeated his claim that energy would be cheaper under the opposition’s nuclear plan – despite the modelling underpinning the strategy explicitly not assessing the impact on power bills. The…

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