Australasia AI Compliance Update: New Zealand and Australia
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On 15 October 2026, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua (RBNZ) and the Financial Markets Authority – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko (FMA) jointly outlined their supervisory expectations on cyber risks associated with frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI).
New Zealand
On 15 October 2026, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua (RBNZ) and the Financial Markets Authority – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko (FMA) jointly outlined their supervisory expectations on cyber risks associated with frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Australia
The Fair Work Commission's generative AI guidance note took effect in Australia on 20 October 2026, as reported by knowledge.dlapiper.com. The page states that the Guidance sees consequences including the FWC giving less weight to those documents or the documents being disregarded; the FWC ordering the party to pay costs incurred by another party; or the party's case being dismissed.
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