Australia

An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on a Medicare data portal in June; Canberra says it wasn't told until September and is now reviewing AI regulation.

The AI infrastructure developer's wholesale supply agreement anchors a new 200 MW/800 MWh grid-forming battery and commits Gunvor to 1.2 GW of renewables and 1.5 GWh of storage by 2032.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers's 2026-27 budget pivots clean-energy policy from industrial subsidies toward consumer-side regulation, funding a new Clean Energy Regulator body for distributed solar, batteries, and EVs while cutting Hydrogen Headstart, Solar Sunshot, and Battery Breakthrough.

An analysis of 2,456 mitochondrial genomes published in Science Advances identifies two distinct maritime routes humans used to reach Sahul roughly 60,000 years ago.

A 36-day voyage aboard CSIRO's RV Investigator surveyed 61 deep-water sites in Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park, collecting over 6,000 fishes and 80,000 invertebrates and identifying more than 120 species new to science at depths reaching 3,600 meters.