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Australia's online-safety chief avoids AI conference, following 2024 reporting snafu

By James Panichi ( November 20, 2025, 06:01 GMT | Insight) -- Australia's top online-safety official has revealed she declined an invitation to discuss artificial intelligence at the 2025 conference organized by Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, following MLex’s 2024 revelations that she had failed to disclose her attendance at the same conference that year. In an entry on the eSafety Commissioner’s website, Julie Inman Grant said that she had “declined the following gifts and/or benefits whose value exceeds the stipulated threshold of A$100.00,” listing the invitation to the Minderoo Foundation retreat, which last year took place in August.Australia’s top online-safety official has revealed she declined an invitation to discuss artificial intelligence at the 2025 conference organized by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, following MLex’s 2024 revelations that she had failed to disclose her attendance at the same conference that year....

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