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Laura Banks

@laurakatebanks.bsky.social
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Mum | Journalist (ex-Sydney Morning Herald, 7News) laurakatebanks@protonmail.com

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Join @jessielilley.bsky.social and I on @3rrrfm.bsky.social from 7pm tonight as we interview @laurakatebanks.bsky.social about this fascinating and deeply worrying investigation for Deep Cut: open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tonight on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social we are chatting to @laurakatebanks.bsky.social about this quite fucked up situation (and brilliant reporting from Laura). Tune in from 7pm. With me and @theshufflediary.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...
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Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What happens when AI gets it wrong and real people pay the price? Susan Neill-Fraser’s case shows how AI-generated misinformation can enter the justice system, with consequences for people’s lives and freedoms. Some analysis from me in Cheek Media today. cheekmedia.substack.com/p/when-ai-ge...
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AI injustice: Susan Neill-Fraser's case offers a stark warning
The case of Susan Neill-Fraser offers a warning for what can go wrong when AI is unleashed in our justice system.
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A new instalment of my investigation into Basketball Australia's use of AI cameras to film all games, it seems now, with serious consequences open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW PODCAST: Where's Karl, AI killing us all?, and why is SkyNews default on your smart TV arationalfear.com
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I had a yak to @danilic.bsky.social and co on A Rational Fear this week, take a listen. arationalfear.substack.com/p/samsung-tv...
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Samsung TVs are making you racist!
🎙️ NEW PODCAST: Feat. Laura Banks, Grace Vegesana, Lewis Hobba, and Dan Ilic
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Also from me today - Pauline Hanson turns attacks on journos into a reliable political weapon, creating headlines, casting media as the enemy - what it will take for journos to show solidarity with their peers, instead of helping manufacture the news cycle. www.ettemedia.com/how-journali...
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How journalists can stop letting Pauline Hanson write the news agenda
Where is the journalist solidarity in defence of our craft that is under attack?
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New today - Basketball Australia is preparing to put 1000s of children in front of AI-powered cameras, with a proposed national system set to automatically record junior games, the decision alarming child-safety experts. www.deepcutnews.com/p/basketball...
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Basketball Australia considers Israeli AI tech to record junior games, sparking child safety fears
Thousands of children could be exposed to Israeli AI software Pixellot, which has links to the IDF
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New from me and @ettemedia.bsky.social
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A national treasure.
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New from me - A NSW Supreme Court judge has delivered a sweeping rejection of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, labelling it “verbose and imprecise”. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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NSW Supreme Court criticises IHRA definition as 'detached from reality'
Justice Fagan says Zionism 'open to criticism' in decision on graffiti case
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Slop. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Title - instruction: “[place cartoon here - ed]”. Appearance of yellow torn out lined note paper held in place by sticky tape. Text: “The Herald-Sun has this week published an AI cartoon, where previously they might have commissioned one of their (dwindling) stable of artists. And it makes sense. (Not the cartoon.) After all, what is a cartoon, but a picture with a caption and maybe some helpful labels to make a point? In this case, a point the editor who prompted it wanted to make.
I mean, how hard can cartooning be? We would all be doing them if it weren’t for our lack of drawing skill (and some cartoonists aren’t very skilled, let’s face it), and AI means nobody has to pay the outrageous fees that “artists” charge, while they can “borrow” their existing work to train AI. It’s literally a no-brainer!” (Small picture of a brain crossed out) “We can only hope they can keep up the quality, once the AI can only be trained using other AI cartoons.”
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New from me - NSW Supreme Court judge rejects bid to place a young Sydney man under a terrorism supervision order, finding prosecutors wrongly conflated hostility towards Israel with hatred of Jewish people in assessing whether he posed a future terrorism risk. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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NSW Supreme Court says criticism of Israel not antisemitic in graffiti case
Judge rebukes state for seeking to add man who defaced property with anti-Israel slogans on terror watch list
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Despite ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, another Israeli drone attack on southern Lebanon killed three young children. It’s no anomaly. I was there, I saw it. What's happening in Lebanon is being chronically under-reported, so I wrote about it, please read www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/l...
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In forgotten Lebanon, children are still being killed by Israel
Despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, another Israeli drone attack on southern Lebanon killed three young children. It's no anomaly.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.
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