Albanese isn't just betraying authors like me. He's selling out Australia to AI colonists

The article argues that Australia’s Albanese government is making concessions to US AI companies that, in the writer’s view, threaten the country’s creative industries and sovereignty. It recalls a 1974 rally in Hobart where Gough Whitlam spoke about an independent Australia, and contrasts that sentiment with what it describes as a willingness to “roll over” for corporate interests. The writer claims AI firms are pressuring the government to allow “training” uses of creators’ work or risk losing investment, and says leaked proposals would create an environment comparable to the Cayman Islands for tax evasion—describing it as weak regulation. It also criticizes an “opt out” concept as ineffective and emphasizes copyright as the foundation of Australian culture.