Senate Environment and Communications References Committee (part 2 of 2)
30 September 2025
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Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 01:18
Speaker 44
Economy. This entire sector of our economy where workers are already precarious in their incomes is at risk because of the behavior of big tech companies not helped by the productivity commission interim report. Now I have the benefit of an arts education focused on the critical interrogation of text. So on reading the Productivity Commission report, it is very clear that regardless of how they might try to retroactively frame it, they are advocating for the interests of big technology companies, mostly foreign owned, at the expense of Australian creators and small businesses. The arguments from the productivity commission are incredibly similar to those of the big tech companies.
Both are characterised in our experience by a lack of understanding of copyright and a disinterest in our cultural sovereignty and the survival of our industry. Also missing from the Productivity Commission report was any economic modelling on the contribution that creative works make to our economy, which seems an odd omission. So we did some, and this will be in our submission to the committee. But I can say that I represent workers who create a contribution to the economy of about $500,000,000 a year, and it's our collective view that it is in Australia's economic and cultural best interest to ensure we can all keep creating.
01:18 - 01:21
Speaker 26
Thank you. I'm gonna go to questions. Senator Ghosh?
01:22 - 01:49
Speaker 40
Sure. Thank you very much to both witnesses for being here today. Can I ask, what is, in your view, the best way to ensure that Australian creatives get paid for their content in the AI landscape? And or put another way, how do we get big tech to come to the table and get on board with offering the opportunity to provide or deny consent to use works and then pay for works that they're using?
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