This submission addresses policy reform areas in the Australian Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Pillar 3: harnessing data and digital technology. It focuses on enabling artificial intelligence's productivity potential and supporting safe data access and use through outcomes-based privacy regulation. The submission raises doubts about the interim report’s much-hyped productivity gains.

This submission highlights that Australia's regulatory approach to new technology and artificial intelligence has come at the cost of updating general, underlying data and consumer frameworks. The submission endorses a shift in approach to digital regulation that is more outcomes-based and positively framed across all areas of digital reform.