Australia's AI Sovereignty Race: Hyperscalers, Hackers, and a Tightrope Walk

Australia faces a dangerous paradox: it desperately needs sovereign AI capability to avoid becoming a "supplicant nation," yet its outdated infrastructure is wildly vulnerable to AI-powered attacks — and neither government regulation nor private sector self-governance is keeping pace.

Evidence For

• Coalition frontbencher Andrew Hastie declared Australia is "not in the race" for AI sovereignty, warning the nation risks becoming "a supplicant state, not a sovereign state"...