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What Australia's AI Regulation Means For Your Risk Register

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Published 11 Sept 2026

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Guest Articles / Guest Opinion

What Australia's AI Regulation Means For Your Risk Register

Guest Writer |

Published 11 Sept 2026

Guest Opinion

GUEST OPINION:

Open the risk register at most Australian organisations and you will find much the same categories that were there a decade ago.

Work health and safety. Financial exposure. Cyber. Supply chain. Business continuity. What you will rarely find is a single entry for artificial intelligence, even though AI now helps decide who works which shift, which candidate moves forward, and whose performance gets flagged this week.

That omission made sense when AI was something a few staff experimented with. It makes much less sense now that AI is something that manages them.

Australia's AI Regulation is Arriving Through Three Doors, Not One

There is no single Australian AI Act, and waiting for one is the mistake. Three developments already in motion reach the systems that allocate work, monitor people and decide about them.

None was designed with the others in mind. Together they move AI out of the tools column and into the duties column, and that is a risk register question before it is a technology question.

It is fair to ask whether a national AI law makes this moot. On 26 August, the National Cabinet backed a Commonwealth plan to legislate national AI standards, and a Joint Select Committee is reviewing whether existing laws are adequate.

Neither is a reason to wait. That standard work targets large data centres, covering energy, water and land use, and legislation is not expected until early 2027.

Algorithmic Management is Already a Work Health and Safety Duty

Start here, because this one is live now and does more work than people expect.

Australian regulators have spent several years tightening the rules on psychosocial risk.

In New South Wales, SafeWork's Code of Practice for Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work sits under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, and the Work Health and Saf

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