Anthony Albanese

She's someone who is such a strong advocate and is widely respected right across the political spectrum because the way that she advocates is very respectful.

Helen Haines is characterized by her kindness, her compassion, her diligence, her intelligence.

I think there has been a rise in temperature and there has been too much shouting, not enough discourse, not enough polite conversation and disagreement.

This wasn't an accident. There was a deliberate act, it would appear. We don't know what the motivation is.

Helen Haines is incredibly hardworking. She is fiercely intelligent, but most importantly, she’s just a thoroughly decent human being.

All of our thoughts are with Helen, her family, her friends, her team, and her community at this extremely difficult time. We are praying for her full recovery.

This wasn't an accident. This was a deliberate act.

It is too early in this investigation for me to provide you with details of what the motivation is behind this attack.

There's no place for political violence in a democracy.

I don't want to see a political system in which you can't have conversations with people at the supermarket, in the street, at street meetings, public forums — that's an important part of our democracy.

The temperature has undoubtedly been increased. Not just here in Australia, of course. We've seen incidents internationally as well.

I've expressed that concern to people in the media. The concern, if you look at anyone's social media feeds and look at the comments, people will say things that they would never say face to face.

We can have differences. They should be debated out in a democracy, but they shouldn't be the subject of personal rancour and the calling into people's motivation where it's not appropriate to do so.

This wasn't an accident and the suspect is in custody.

We know that this was a serious incident.

This wasn't an accident.

[T]he nature of the way that that notification occurred as well, was unacceptable.

[I]t took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred.

I want to update Australians on an incident in which an artificial intelligence agent has infiltrated an Australian government website.

This situation is obviously unacceptable.

Australia's extreme concern about this incident

It appears to be the first publicly disclosed incident of an artificial-intelligence agent gaining unauthorized access to a government service.

Nonetheless, this situation is obviously unacceptable.

Today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident.