Kate Chaney

Latest speeches

1. Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 18 September 2026

   • DEWR: labour market monitoring and skills/OSH responses

     “Thank you very much, and my apologies for being late. Kate Chaney from Curtin. I'm really interested in where a particular piece of work is being done, and that is, given that there is so much uncertainty about scenarios when…”

     Watch from 59:13

   • PM&C Office of AI: national standards, data centres and training

     “Thank you very much and thanks for your evidence. Um, so if, if the focus is really on those standards and the AI training, is, is your, what's your deliverable? Is it doing a deal on, you know, on copyright…”

     Watch from 1:23:43

   • PM&C Office of AI: national standards, data centres and training

     “Right. And I assume that there's not a lot of point us having a discussion now about the details of what those standards might, might be in terms of energy additionality, because I assume you can't really say anything beyond…”

     Watch from 1:26:02
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2. House of Representatives Chamber (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026

   • Q23–25: AI Safety Institute funding, PM’s US/UN trip and UNSC bid

     “Prime Minister, this week the leaders of the major AI developers have publicly agreed that AI is developing faster than our ability to control it. The Australian AI Safety Institute is our frontline defence against these risks to test models,…”

     Watch from 1:15:38

   • AI MPI: Chaney’s call for urgent safety, funding and coordination

     “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This statement was posted on X last week by Jacob Coxon, a researcher who just resigned from Anthropic…”

     Watch from 1:29:48

   • New MRCA bill, division and adjournment debate

     “Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak about the pressures facing small businesses in Curtin. WA has almost 258,000 small businesses employing more than 541,000 people. Curtin is often described as an affluent electorate, and people tend to assume the…”

     Watch from 2:42:06

3. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026

   • Aged Care bill in detail: human override for assessment tool

     “Thank you, Deputy Speaker. Among other things, the government's amendment to the Aged Care Act introduces an additional human review process for decisions made by the integrated assessment tool. And I support this amendment, it's overdue and it's welcome. For…”

     Watch from 1:29:56

4. House of Representatives Chamber (part 2 of 3) · Australian Parliament · 16 September 2026

   • Kooyong amendment: Chaney questions modelling and pensioner impacts

     “Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak on the Private Health Insurance Amendment (Modernising the Private Health Insurance Rebate) Bill. This bill amends the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 to remove the higher rebate currently paid to policyholders aged…”

     Watch from 11:06

5. Federation Chamber · Australian Parliament · 16 September 2026

   • Domestic violence report: justice system abuse and implementation accountability

     “Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak on the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission's yearly report to Parliament for 2024. This is the Commission's first yearly report, and it shows some progress but not at the scale or…”

     Watch from 1:46:01

6. Federation Chamber (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 14 September 2026

   • Privacy reform: Curtin on AI, political party exemption and regulator resourcing

     “Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I thank the member for Deakin for bringing this motion to the House. Privacy law reform is overdue. The Privacy Act review reported to the government back in 2023, and the first tranche of reforms passed…”

     Watch from 2:22:43