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Can Labor handle a backlash over AI and data centres?
Key takeaways
- When progressives and populists lock in on an issue, it can leave the government looking flat-footed.
- The fact that she mentioned AI during her speech provides a clear insight into just how effective the populist leader is in detecting the anxieties Australians face.
- While she may have banged on about workers in her call to overhaul industrial relations, she was strategic in zeroing in on their anxieties about what AI will do to their jobs and the jobs of their children.
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When progressives and populists lock in on an issue, it can leave the government looking flat-footed. (ABC News)
Link copied Share Share article If you want to work out where the next frontier of political and social conflict will come from, it's often worth listening to what politicians on both the hard left and hard right are saying.
Last week, while everyone was focused on Pauline Hanson calling for a monoculture, railing against mainstream media, and branding Australian workers as lazy, another part of her tightly scripted speech went largely unnoticed.
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