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Sep 29, 2026
Toby WalshGUEST
So finally it's got to his desk.
Toby WalshGUEST
They're setting up this office of AI in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Toby WalshGUEST
That's the centre of government.
Toby WalshGUEST
You can't get closer to the seat of power than that.
Tallulah LemerleHOST
The Australian government has responded by setting up a task force to review incident response procedures.
Tallulah LemerleHOST
This task force includes the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the National Cybersecurity Coordinator, and other key agencies.
Tallulah LemerleHOST
Their findings are expected to inform future AI standards legislation in Australia.
TopherGUEST
And this isn't an isolated incident.
ChrisHOST
So is the company the intruder because it built and deployed the agent? Is it the researcher who gave it the task? Or is it effectively nobody? Which would be the most troubling answer of all for anyone running a public website.
LauraHOST
And that is precisely why Australia set up a task force led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, bringing in the Signals Directorate, the AI Safety Institute, and the Office of AI.
LauraHOST
They want a forensic account, and they want to know the rules.
ChrisHOST
Let's zoom into the technical side, because I think listeners want to know how an AI agent actually gets past a block.
WambaHOST
On June 20 and 21, OpenAI's agent also tried to access the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare public-facing website.
WambaHOST
The task force within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet will investigate how to build and maintain resilient systems in the AI era.
WambaHOST
And this story continues on page four.
WambaHOST
And on page four, it is titled AI Medicare hot delay to alert languishing in inbox.
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
And because Albanese's been over in New York attending the United Nations General Assembly this week, Richard Marles was the one that gave the update as acting PM yesterday morning.
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
He said that a task force is now working to try to figure out what happened here, and it's being led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, which is working with the Australian Signals Directorate, that's our cyber agency, as well as other AI bodies.
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
And it's going to be looking at the security of government networks and also trying to figure out if this incident has broken the law.
Larissa HuntingtonHOST
And Marles also said that OpenAI is cooperating with the investigations while it's also doing its own review.
Kylie BryantGUEST
Yeah.
Kylie BryantGUEST
So I was working in the National Security Division at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and my boss was moving to a taskforce and the secretary at the time asked me to move into h- to his position.
Kylie BryantGUEST
I was also his BOM under the public service around he didn't believe in the hierarchy and things like that, so I jumped a couple of levels.
Kylie BryantGUEST
But I was also working with the Department of Defense and the Department of Home Affairs as my main departments that we were working for.
Fatima SohailHOST
Releasing its annual report on Monday, the tribunal, which sets base salaries for MPs, departmental secretaries, full-time public officials and judicial officers, said it had awarded no pay rises in 2026, the first time since the COVID era.
Fatima SohailHOST
Instead, the Independent Federal Authority, which sits within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, oversaw sweeping cuts to politicians' travel allowances and announced major reviews into the high salaries of departmental secretaries and full-time public office holders.
Fatima SohailHOST
The tribunal said the freeze meant some officials had seen their salaries fall in real terms for the year, but that decision would allow it to consider remuneration outcomes in a more integrated, thoughtful manner.
Fatima SohailHOST
This will ensure that future decisions are informed by the findings of the current reviews and reflect a coherent framework across senior Commonwealth offices, the report said.
Andrew LeighHOST
In some cases political autobiographies are treading on questionable legal ground.
Andrew LeighHOST
We have the issue of cabinet confidentiality and you report on Neil Blewett's cabinet diaries and the threatening letter that the head of PM&C, Max Moore-Wilton, wrote to him.
Andrew LeighHOST
How do you think the norms about reporting on cabinet confidentiality in an autobiography have changed? I'm asking here for a friend.
Joshua BlackGUEST
I think the trend has certainly been towards more disclosure rather than less and I think each example is a precedent that shows just how powerless even the most aggressive government would be if they attempted to prosecute a cabinet memoirist under the Crimes Act or whatever other legislation is available to them.
Peter LewisHOST
out.
Damir DamianowskiHOST
Yeah, jokingly, someone from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, I'm not going to say who, but when I was in the PMO, years later, they remembered me because at one point I went in there and said, I need to talk to you about the inverse pyramid of fucks given.
Damir DamianowskiHOST
And basically, the further it gets from you, the number of fucks you give about that issue decreases.
Damir DamianowskiHOST
But the wealthier you feel, that sphere increases.
Danielle WoodGUEST
sort of as a tick the box, we're going to retrofit the assessment and everyone can feel good about it.
Danielle WoodGUEST
We have said to help with the accountability at the moment that is done within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and we think that's a good place for it to be done because it's right in the heart of the action process.
Danielle WoodGUEST
They know what's going on, what's coming through the cabinet process.
Danielle WoodGUEST
But putting an independent statutory person in charge, that's someone independent of government and basically it's a fixed term, they can't be fired.
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