Sydney artists in PM Albanese's own seat rebel against AI copyright proposal
TobyWalsh · x · 2026-11-01
- Australia's Labor government is mulling copyright changes in a suite of AI reforms that would by default give AI companies unrestricted access to works Australians create online, as it pursues a compromise with US tech giants — sparking backlash from the creative community.
- The pushback hits PM Anthony Albanese's own seat of Grayndler in Sydney's inner west, home to 3,000+ cultural and creative businesses with 10% of workers in creative fields (vs 4.2% nationally); local artists have united to call the proposal "insane", saying artists are "the first to be thrown under the bus".
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