Australia news live: government starts assessing risks of frontier AI models; Richard White steps down as WiseTech chair

According to The Guardian World, Australia's deputy prime minister Richard Marles has voiced deep concern over a long-range missile test China carried out yesterday — a weapon Beijing itself describes as nuclear-capable. Marles said he doubts the timing was a direct response to prime minister Anthony Albanese being in the Pacific to sign a new defence pact with Fiji, but called the launch destabilising, pointing to what he framed as a dramatic Chinese military buildup with little strategic reassurance offered to neighbouring countries. In the same rundown, the government said it is beginning to assess the risks posed by frontier AI models, with Andrew Charlton noting it intends to regulate using laws already on the books, and WiseTech's Richard White stepped down as chair of the software company.

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