Bernard Fanning

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7am · “It’s f***ing bad manners” Bernard Fanning on AI robbing Australian music · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

It seems absurd to me.

I can't understand why it's even under consideration, especially given the current federal government

has made a big deal about what great supporters of the arts they are.

Our prime minister's a DJ and our arts minister is a frequent attender of gigs of Australian bands and whatnot.

So I'm a little confused by it, to be honest, and I don't really understand how it's even a consideration, but the fact that it is means that it's kind of incumbent on us to speak out about it and make people aware of it.

i think everybody understands that that governments have you know responsibility to try to do the best by their constituents um that is the theory right it appears that there's there's a lot more weight given to corporate interests in in the modern political age there's obviously the economic considerations of

jobs and whatnot that, you know, the data centres would provide, however temporarily.

I understand that.

But if it comes at the cost of undermining Australian culture and a cultural identity, which is essentially what this will do, I mean, a machine can't write flame trees, you know.

It just can't because it hasn't...

lived in a small town and experienced that anguish and those difficulties that take really deep thinking to process and put into a song or a piece of art.

This isn't just songwriters, it's authors, it's visual artists, it's any journalists, you guys, academics.

I was trying to think of an analogy

And this is very clumsy, but the best I could come up with was your neighbor who you don't know comes over, gets your mower out of your shed, takes it back to his place, mows his lawn, and then puts it in his shed.

And it's his then.

And then he rents that mower to all the other neighbors.

and he makes money off your mower.

It's a ridiculous, absurd situation.

And like I said, it's very clumsy, but it kind of, that is essentially what's happening.

Yeah, they could just rule it out.

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