Sovereign data centres at 3c/kWh corridor power — 60% cheaper to train AI here than anywhere else. AusBrain — Australia's sovereign LLM. AI Institute selling tools across the Asia-Pacific. AI Transition Unit retraining displaced workers within 12 months. Algorithmic accountability. No Robodebt.
Every Medicare record. Every ATO file. Every Centrelink payment. Every myGov account. Every defence procurement document. All of it sits on servers owned by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud — and is subject to the US CLOUD Act, which compels US companies to disclose data to US authorities regardless of where the data is physically stored. The data of 27 million Australians is not sovereign.
Training a frontier AI model requires two things above all others: compute and power. Compute can be bought. Power, at scale and at cost, is available in only a handful of places on earth — and Australia, with the best solar resources in the developed world, is not currently one of them. Power prices among the highest in the OECD make Australia uncompetitive for AI training despite our natural advantages.
AI and automation are displacing workers across every industry. Truck drivers, administrative staff, call centre workers, radiologists, paralegals, accountants — every sector is being restructured. Australia has no national transition plan. The two parties of the last 40 years have managed industry decline by hoping nobody noticed. AI accelerates the timeline. The hope strategy is no longer available.
Australian Sovereign Data Centre network built in desert corridor under SBC ownership. Powered by SBC solar at 3–5c/kWh. 100MW capacity Years 1–2, scaling to 1GW by Year 5 and 10GW by Year 10. Government contracts replace the $10B/yr currently paid to US cloud. Surplus capacity sold to Asia-Pacific at 30–40% below Singapore data centre pricing.
AusBrain — Australia's sovereign LLM — trained on Australian data, governed by Australian law. Powers the People's Portal, AI tutoring in schools, government services. ATO assistance in plain English. Medicare triage. Centrelink navigation. Tools Australia currently pays US companies hundreds of millions to approximate badly.
Australian AI Institute under the SBC: not a research centre, a production facility. Commercial arm sells tools across the Asia-Pacific: agricultural AI for precision farming, mining AI for autonomous operations, climate modelling for Pacific Island partners. Revenue flows to the SBC. Capability stays in Australia permanently.
Asian governments routing through US cloud face the CLOUD Act. Chinese cloud faces CCP access. Australia sits outside both. MMP's Australian Sovereign Data Centre operates under Australian law. Compelled disclosure requires an Australian court order. Neither Washington's nor Beijing's jurisdiction. Australia is the only credible neutral cloud in the hemisphere. The economic opportunity is enormous.
Real-time monitoring of AI job displacement by sector. When a sector crosses a threshold, the AI Transition Unit triggers automatic retraining. Monitoring is public. Every Australian displaced by automation has a plan, a pathway, and a role within twelve months. The SBC absorbs much of the displaced workforce — construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and corridor town services.
Robodebt: an algorithm made welfare decisions no human reviewed. Any government algorithm must be registered with the Digital Australia Authority, audited annually, and explained in plain English. High-risk AI — welfare, facial recognition, criminal justice, medical diagnosis — requires mandatory registration and ministerial approval. Robodebt cannot happen again.
The data of 27 million Australians belongs to Australia, governed by Australian law. The Australian Sovereign Data Centre is constitutionally protected from sale or transfer to private interests. The Digital Australia Authority owns the infrastructure. Open source code — any Australian can see how it works.
Electric semi-trailers and road trains powered by SBC corridor electricity. Charging infrastructure built into every corridor town. Long-haul freight moves on the corridors as electrified rail; last-mile delivery as electric truck. The diesel road-freight bill Australia pays every year — currently $18–22 billion — falls dramatically.
Australia has the world's largest lithium reserves and exports almost all of them as raw rock. MMP builds a sovereign battery gigafactory in the SBC industrial belt. Lithium → battery → vehicle → export. The value chain captured domestically. Joint ventures with proven technology partners — Australia holds minimum 30% equity in all such joint ventures.
No memos pinned to this policy yet. When an MMP memo on this topic is published, it will appear here with a short summary. The full memo index is at moralmajority.com.au/memos.html.