Australia news live: Albanese signs declaration with world leaders urging human control over AI; city of Sydney bans smartglasses

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Chalmers says Australia has ‘a lot going for us’, despite ‘pretty serious’ economic pressures The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is making the media rounds this morning after the release yesterday of the intergenerational report. We’ve got a lot going for us as well. And one of the things we’ve got going for us, even in the context of these very substantial budget pressures that come from things like ageing and other pressures in our economy, is we’ve actually got a budget which is substantially stronger than other countries. We could have left everything exactly as it was. We could have acknowledged the intergenerational unfairness that exists in the housing market and done nothing about it. We chose to make some difficult changes. Continue reading...