Senate debates

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Questions without Notice

Artificial Intelligence

2:47 pm

Photo of Tim AyresTim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

I don't think we've used that language, 'light touch', to describe our approach. It's an effective regulatory approach. And in each of the theatres of activity that you've described there are important benefits that artificial intelligence can offer to Australians—in health terms and in productivity terms. Let's say you wanted to produce 35,000 questions on notice and you had, say, four staff to do that work. And say you thought it was going to take about 30 minutes for each question on notice. I'm more a maths kind of guy than a maths kind of guy, but my maths says that if you could do 304 questions on notice every week, it would take your office 460 weeks to produce that work, but, if you used artificial intelligence to produce 35 questions on notice at home or at work— (Time expired)

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