The biggest political story to shake out from the weekend’s NSW Labor conference was the escalating knife fight within the party over gambling and pokies reform. It’s a story our chief political correspondent, Matthew Franklin, has covered closely in Political Capital over the past week.
But Anthony Albanese’s speech in Sydney also gave its due to another big story in the Australian economy: the artificial intelligence boom.
The prime minister repeated a familiar refrain from the past couple of years, which you’re probably sick of hearing by now. Australia is well placed to reap the rewards of the global surge in AI data centre spending by offering up a big slab of flat, sunbaked, democratic dirt to build them on.
“Right now, the world is queuing up to invest in Australia. They recognise our unique strengths, our people and their skills, our space, our sunlight, our natural resources, and our stable democracy,” Albanese said.
