Victorian minister declines NextDC support, accuses CEO of using AI in lobbying email

Victorian jobs minister Melissa Horne declined to support NextDC's Footscray M3 expansion and accused CEO Craig Scroggie of using AI to write his early-September lobbying email, citing basic factual errors. 'I suggest that you review content produced by artificial intelligence more closely in the future,' she wrote. The project remains under assessment by the planning minister.