Richard Marles

[I]n an unintended way, an AI agent has entered into an Australian Government website in a way which is unauthorised.

It was not sitting behind a particularly high fence. This AI agent scaled the fence ... and the point is it was unintended. It wasn't asked to. That's our concern here.

The situation was fundamentally unacceptable.

This is a warning about the technology being developed without safeguards and without guardrails in place.

We're working closely with the US to support Australia's national interests and national security, in areas such as defence and emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence.

We have spoken previously about Australia being able to provide strategic depth to Japan across a range of areas, but one of them is the use.

This initiative is a clear demonstration of that enduring partnership in action.

We have to go ahead with the Aukus submarine project as there was no 'plan B'

It is important that those production and sustainment rates are improved.

I am very confident this is going to happen.

The shock and disruption from the high tariffs has been costly and destabilizing.

Reality is that there is no effective balance of power in this region absent the United States, but we cannot leave it to the United States alone.