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MPs granting powerful political lobbyists unfettered access to Australia’s parliament, data reveals

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Labor and Coalition members sponsoring resource companies and lobby group representing online gambling giants

Labor and Coalition MPs are facilitating permanent access to Parliament House for the country’s biggest resources companies and the lobby group representing online gambling giants, new data has revealed.

Updated rules about access passes to parliament’s private offices require MPs who sponsor lobbyists and other private interests to be disclosed on a public register. However, Tuesday’s first release of data provided very limited detail, with a backlog of more than 1,000 applications yet to be processed.

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Google expands Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the US, offering AI-generated visual stories from users' digital activity in 13 local languages (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google expands Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the US, offering AI-generated visual stories from users' digital activity in 13 local languages  —  Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap …