Day: November 11, 2025
List of those who were told in advance grows to include police, parliamentary security, lower house speaker and upper house president
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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, says staff in his office may not have been notified in advance about Saturday’s neo-Nazi rally by parliamentary security “because it was on the weekend”.
The premier said his department’s secretary would look into changes to security procedures after it emerged other senior parliamentary figures and police were warned about the rally on Macquarie Street.
Finance minister Katy Gallagher says the public service is building its own artificial intelligence program and spruiks productivity benefits
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The federal government could “explore” using artificial intelligence programs to write sensitive cabinet submissions or business cases, as part of a major initiative to embed AI across the public service, despite concerns about the technology increasing risks of security and data breaches.
The finance minister, Katy Gallagher, also announced on Wednesday the public service would build its own special AI program for government workers, spruiking productivity benefits for rolling out generative programs such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini to departments.
