Australian Politics

The Australian Greens are asking for people to sign their petition to the Australian Govt about Palantir's influence in our country. Please sign if you agree. If they get enough signatures the govt will have to go on record with a response.

Palantir's CEO just published a manifesto declaring that "some cultures are dysfunctional," and that Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance...

Australian Defence has spent over $26 million on Palantir since 2013. Palantir staff are embedded inside Defence. The company holds top secret clearance. Palantir is also inside the Australian Signals Directorate, AUSTRAC, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, and has deep ties to Coles, Westpac, Rio Tinto and the national Future Fund has millions of public dollars invested in the company.

Palantir's AI has been linked to lethal targeting in Gaza, contributing to tens of thousands of civilian deaths. They built the system ICE uses to track and deport immigrants in the United States. They are used to make military strikes in Iran in Lebanon.

These facts alone should have triggered an immediate review of every Australian contract.

We call on the Government to:

• Immediately freeze all new Palantir contracts across every government agency

• Review and reverse the Future Fund's $100 million investment in Palantir

• Remove Palantir’s top secret security clearance pending the outcome of that review

• Conduct a full public audit of every existing Palantir contract particularly in Defence and security agencies, with findings tabled in Parliament

• Cancel all Government contracts with Palantir