David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

Get this: we put up a motion to say the Australian government should be protecting Australian jobs, our environment, our water and our national interests from the march of US controlled tech bros, with their AI centres and their data scraping, through our institutions. We put up a motion to say that, and the Albanese Labor government is coming together to say no, to oppose a motion talking about the core protections we should have for the national interest, for our jobs, for our future and for our ability to control our own future.

Get this clear: under the Albanese government, we've got this pressure from the global AI tech industry largely driven by US tech bros, billionaires like Elon Musk and others, and some of the bottom-feeders that run companies like Palantir and Anduril—really nasty types who have a direct political project to drive forward the interests of the United States military, the United States government and the Trump administration. And what does the Albanese government do? Does it say, 'Actually, we're the government for Australia, and we'll put in laws and controls and hard guardrails'? No, not this mob. The Albanese Labor government roll out the red carpet and give this lot contracts. They gave a $1.7 billion contract to Anduril, controlled by the kind of person you couldn't make up—the kind of cartoon-villain, right-wing US tech bro billionaire. They also roll the red carpet out to Palantir.

Australians are asking for a government that responds to the needs of the Australian people. Protect our jobs from this law. Don't put in place expectations that foreign multinational techs will roll over; put in place hard laws. And, for once, have this place, have this government, have this parliament, be on the side of Australians, Australian jobs and the Australian environment, not of whatever AI slop comes out of Washington.