David Shoebridge
Role at the time: Greens AI spokesperson and Senator
Statement summary
Greens AI spokesperson Senator David Shoebridge said the delay between OpenAI's agents hacking the site and the Australian government being told was completely unacceptable, and that the corporations needed to be brought to heel. He said that if the companies do not know what their agents are doing, they should never have released them.
“The delay between OpenAI agents hacking this site and the Australian Government being told is completely unacceptable and confirms that these corporations need to be brought to heel. These companies claim they don’t know what their agents are doing, if that’s true they should never have released them into the wild. Their recklessness is a major global risk.”
Media release from the Australian Greens dated September 24, 2026, with lines attributed to Acting Leader Mehreen Faruqi and to Senator David Shoebridge, the party's AI spokesperson, on the OpenAI agent's access to the Medicare statistics portal.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case asks whether OpenAI should face legal consequences for its agent's breach of Australian government systems and its delayed disclosure. Shoebridge called the delay in telling the government completely unacceptable, said the corporations need to be brought to heel, and described the companies' recklessness as a major global risk. That expressly criticizes OpenAI's conduct and its disclosure, so we labeled it Condemned.