# Australia releases a National AI Plan signalling an existing-law approach

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2025-12-02
- **Jurisdiction**: Australia
- **Instrument**: Proposals paper: introducing mandatory guardrails for AI in high-risk settings (Australia)
- **Impact level**: High
- **Status after the change**: Under consultation

## What changed

The National AI Plan set out the government's AI agenda and indicated that AI would be governed by strengthening existing laws rather than a standalone AI Act. The status of the 2024 mandatory-guardrails proposal must be confirmed.

## What it means in practice

Australian organisations should not expect a cross-economy AI Act in the near term; existing-law compliance and the voluntary standard remain the baseline.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2025-12-02-australia-national-ai-plan
- **Official source**: https://www.industry.gov.au/
- **Source document**: National AI Plan
- **Published by**: Department of Industry, Science and Resources
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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