In an age when foreign powers can craft a deception tailored to a single person's life using nothing more than public data and a language model, Australia finds itself in a familiar human predicament: the tools of protection and the tools of harm have arrived together, and the question is which side moves faster. Canberra's home affairs officials have acknowledged this week that state-sponsored disinformation and AI-assisted cyberattacks are outpacing the government's own detection capabilities, while the private sector holds tools the state cannot match. Australia's response — to lure AI comp