By referring in his AI speech to such nation-changing reforms as Medicare and compulsory superannuation, both Labor initiatives, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signalled his ambition to lead another Labor reform.

This time, the shaping of the AI revolution to benefit everyday Australians, not just the foreign AI behemoths.

Sovereignty was the central theme of his speech on Wednesday.

Albanese made clear that AI must not come at the expense of our economic resilience, our businesses or households, our artists, our environment or our national security.

He warned against a data centre free-for-all, where foreign mega-corporations seek our land, renewable energy and water, but give little to Australia in return.

Australia providing the natural resources for hungry and thirsty data centres, with no value adding, would be a modern-day repetition of Donald Horne’s warning about the “lucky country”, richly........

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