Bonus episode: Our previous episode scrutinising One Nation’s surge upset made many of the party’s supporters. They took issue with describing what the data says about the archetypal One Nation voter: they tend to be older, live in regional Australia, and have lower levels of education and income.

Crystal Andrews and Bernard Keane return to debate whether it’s patronising to describe voters this way, or just stating the facts? And how can you discuss a political movement’s influence on Australia, if you can’t talk about who they are?

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One Nation’s surge in the polls can no longer be denied, now neck-and-neck with the Liberal party at around 20% of the primary voting intention. Combined with a tense social environment and a high-profile joiner in Barnaby Joyce, is “Opposition Leader Pauline Hanson” a real possibility?

Party supporters and detractors say the polls are a sign we must take the party seriously. So politics editor Bernard Keane and reporter Anton Nilsson join the podcast to do exactly that — scrutinise One Nation’s policies and prospects.

We discuss the strong and weak points of the policy platform, if One Nation can expand its appeal to a broader voting base, and whether there’s any chance of survival post-Pauline.

Read more:

• One Nation is on a roll. So what are the party’s actual policies?
• No, One Nation isn’t leading the Coalition. The real story is how Albo is undermining the major parties
• The media’s ongoing amnesia regarding Pauline Hanson
• What’s going on with Gen X men and One Nation? I’m sick of being told to feel sorry for them

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The government has unveiled its National AI Plan, laying out a roadmap to scale up AI infrastructure and adoption that Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres claims will help “create a fairer, stronger Australia where every person benefits from this technological change”.

But the plan did not include the mandatory guardrails that many expected would serve as proactive regulations for tech companies.

Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, co-director of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance at Sydney University, joins the podcast to explain the government’s AI strategy, what’s missing from the plan and how Australia measures up against other countries when it comes to AI policymaking.

Weatherall’s book recommendations:

The Shortest History of AI by Toby Walsh and any from this list by London School of Economics and Political Science

Read more:

• Australia’s national AI plan has just been released. Who exactly will benefit?
• Labor goes hands-off in productivity-focused national AI plan
• Can wise heads fix the hard problem of AI policy?
• How Australia’s national security chief used AI to write speeches and ‘personnel communications’
• How data centres are killing Australia’s climate progress
• How AI is reshaping religion and mental health

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