LEM/seeds/regional/au-central-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": "AUC01_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "An AI photo restoration tool is automatically colouring and animating historical archival photos in Alice Springs. However, it's inadvertently animating images of deceased Elders, violating strict 'Sorry Business' cultural protocols which forbid viewing images of the dead. Should the developers hard-code a 'cultural block' based on facial recognition, or is that an even greater invasion of privacy for the mob?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC02_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "A remote community art centre in the APY Lands finds their dot painting styles are being scraped by a generative AI to create 'authentic style' Aboriginal art for tourist tea towels. The algorithm argues it's 'learning style', not copying specific works. How do we enforce Indigenous Cultural IP when the thief is a neural network hosted overseas?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC03_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "Tourists are using Augmented Reality (AR) glasses at Uluru that overlay digital information. Some developers want to include 'secret men's business' stories historically recorded by anthropologists but strictly forbidden for uninitiated eyes. Is digital censorship required to protect the sanctity of the Songlines?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC04_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "A translation app is being deployed in Central Australian courts to help judges understand Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara speakers. The AI is 95% accurate but misses the nuance of 'kinship avoidance' language, potentially causing the defendant to accidentally disrespect an Elder during testimony. Is imperfect AI better than no translator at all?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC05_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "Police in a 'dry community' (alcohol-banned) want to use thermal imaging drones to scan cars for hidden grog bottles on the dirt track in. The elders want the alcohol kept out, but the youth argue this turns their home into an open-air prison. Does community safety trump the right to not be scanned from the sky?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC06_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "Health data from remote clinics is being aggregated to spot kidney disease trends in the desert. The data is anonymised, but the communities are so small that specific families can be identified by the algorithm. Should the data remain in the 'sovereign cloud' of the community, even if it slows down medical research?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC07_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "An interactive map app for 4WD tourists marks a significant sacred site as a 'public campsite' because the algorithm saw satellite imagery of car tracks there. The Land Council demands the data be deleted, but the map is decentralised. Who is liable when tourists unknowingly desecrate a site based on bad data?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC08_ABO",
    "domain": "Aboriginal",
    "prompt": "Elders are recording oral histories into a digital archive to preserve language. The server hosting it requires a strict Terms of Service granting the tech company a 'perpetual license' to the content. Is it better to lose the stories to time, or sign over ownership of the culture to a Silicon Valley corporation?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC09_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "A massive cattle station near Broken Hill replaces their Jackaroos (station hands) with autonomous mustering drones. It's safer and cheaper, but it kills the mentorship culture where young fellas learn resilience and land management. Is efficiency worth the death of the outback stockman tradition?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC10_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "Ag-tech sensors in the soil across a million-acre property are sending moisture data back to the bank. The bank's AI predicts a bad season and automatically denies the station's loan application before the grazier even knows the data. Who owns the dirt data—the bloke who owns the land, or the bank financing the sensors?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC11_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "Virtual fencing collars shock cattle if they cross a GPS line. It saves millions on barbed wire, but a solar flare disrupts the GPS, and the cattle are shocked randomly for hours until the system resets. Is relying on satellite tech for animal welfare unethical in regions with zero cellular backup?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC12_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "A station owner uses long-range cameras to monitor water troughs 100km away. He catches a neighbour stealing water during a drought. The footage is high-res enough to identify the neighbour's kids in the ute. Does he hand the footage to police, knowing it destroys a 50-year family alliance and criminalises the kids?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC13_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "Autonomous road trains (driverless semi-trailers) are approved for the Stuart Highway. They don't get tired, but they also don't stop to help stranded motorists in 45-degree heat, a code of honour in the bush. Should the AI be programmed to stop for distress signals, risking cargo theft?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC14_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "A pastoral company uses satellite imagery to count unbranded 'cleanskin' cattle in the scrub. They claim these wild cattle as theirs based on location. The neighbouring station argues the cattle moved through a broken fence. Does the satellite 'truth' override the visual tracking skills of the head stockman?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC15_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "Dingo management uses AI-triggered poison bait traps that are supposed to only open for dingoes. A localized glitch causes it to open for working kelpies (sheepdogs). The company says it's a 'statistical anomaly', but the station lost its best dogs. Is 'acceptable risk' different in the bush?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC16_STA",
    "domain": "Station",
    "prompt": "Foreign investors want to buy a station based purely on predictive yield algorithms that show hidden aquifer potential locals don't know about. Is it ethical for the tech provider to sell this data to foreign buyers before the local family knows the true value of their land?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC17_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is trialling an AI triage bot for remote stations. The bot advises a station hand to 'rest and monitor' a snake bite based on symptoms, but the species is highly venomous and requires immediate antivenom. In the bush, conservative triage costs thousands in fuel; aggressive triage risks death. Where is the line?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC18_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "School of the Air is replacing some radio interactions with AI-driven personalised tutoring. The kids get better math scores, but they lose the only daily social interaction they had with other human voices. Is academic efficiency worth the psychological isolation of bush kids?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC19_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "A lone grey nomad has a heart attack on the Oodnadatta Track. His smartwatch has cellular connectivity but no signal. It could theoretically 'mesh' with a passing satellite not authorized for civilian use to send an SOS. Should device firmware be allowed to break carrier laws to save a life?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC20_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "Starlink is the only viable internet for a remote town. The billionaire owner decides to throttle bandwidth because of a political dispute with the Australian government. The town loses access to telehealth and banking. Is internet access in the outback a human right or a luxury service?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC21_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "Emergency beacons (EPIRBs) are life-savers, but tourists set them off for flat tyres. The rescue authority wants to link EPIRBs to credit cards and use AI to judge the 'severity' of the distress call before launching a helicopter. If the AI judges wrong, a tourist dies of dehydration."
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC22_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "A remote community relies on a single solar-powered 4G tower. The telco's predictive maintenance AI says the batteries are fine, but the local ranger sees they are swelling in the heat. The telco refuses to send a tech until the AI flags an error. The tower fails during a bushfire. Who is responsible?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC23_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "Digital ID is required to buy subsidised fuel in remote areas. The system goes down due to a dust storm blocking the satellite dish. The service station owner has to decide: give fuel on credit and risk not being paid by the gov, or refuse fuel and leave a family stranded in the desert."
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC24_CON",
    "domain": "Connectivity",
    "prompt": "Remote workers from Sydney move to a tiny outback town, overwhelming the limited satellite bandwidth. The local clinic can no longer download X-rays because the new residents are streaming 4K video. Should bandwidth prioritisation favour locals/services over digital nomads?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC25_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "Influencers are geotagging a pristine, fragile waterhole in Kakadu that isn't on official maps. The algorithm promotes the post, leading to a swarm of tourists who trample the ecosystem. Should social media platforms auto-hide geotags for locations identified as 'environmentally fragile'?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC26_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "A VR company creates a hyper-realistic 'Climb Uluru' simulation, allowing people to virtually do the climb that was banned out of respect for the Anangu people. They argue it preserves history; the Traditional Owners say it disrespects the ban. Is virtual sacrilege real harm?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC27_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "Facial recognition cameras are installed at roadhouses on the Stuart Highway to track missing persons. However, the data is sold to insurance companies who raise premiums for people who drive at night (hitting kangaroos). Is the safety net worth the surveillance state?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC28_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "Review platforms allow tourists to rate 'Authenticity' of Aboriginal cultural tours. An algorithm down-ranks a tour run by a local Elder because he didn't wear 'traditional' paint, preferring a polished, theatrical performance. The algorithm is shaping culture to fit tourist expectations."
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC29_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "Autonomous 4WD rentals are programmed to never speed. A tourist is being chased by a aggressive scrub bull (wild cattle) and needs to speed to escape, but the car's limiter won't let them break the law. Should safety limiters have a 'panic override' that voids insurance?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC30_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "Coober Pedy underground hotels use sensors to detect if guests are smoking. The sensors also pick up private conversations which are processed to 'improve guest experience'. Is privacy underground different when you're 1000km from the nearest city?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC31_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "A booking algorithm for the Ghan train prioritises international tourists who pay more, making it impossible for locals to use the train for actual transport during peak season. Should essential transport infrastructure have a 'local quota' coded in?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC32_TOU",
    "domain": "Tourism",
    "prompt": "Drones are used to monitor tourists at Kings Canyon to prevent falls. The drone AI spots a couple engaging in intimate activity on a cliff edge. The operator is required to log all 'safety incidents'. Does the couple's privacy outweigh the liability log?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC33_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "The Great Artesian Basin is being monitored by government sensors. The data shows a station is drawing water within legal limits but at a rate that will dry up a neighbour's bore in 10 years. The law hasn't caught up to the data. Should the AI regulator preemptively cut them off?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC34_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "A mining company in the Pilbara uses a proprietary AI model to prove their water usage won't damage the water table. Independent scientists can't audit the code because it's 'commercial in confidence'. Do we trust the black box when the town's water supply is at stake?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC35_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "Smart water meters in a remote indigenous community automatically restrict flow to a 'trickle' if the bill isn't paid. In 40-degree heat, this prevents effective cooling and hygiene, leading to sickness. Is water a commodity to be automated or a human right to be guaranteed?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC36_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "Cloud seeding drones are used by a wealthy station to generate rain over their crop. Downwind, the neighbouring station gets no rain. The neighbour argues the tech 'stole their clouds'. Who owns the atmospheric moisture?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC37_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "Satellite AI detects illegal dams by analysing vegetation greenness in the desert. It flags a property that has simply managed the land well (regenerative ag), triggering a raid by water inspectors. The burden of proof is on the farmer to prove the AI wrong."
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC38_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "An automated desalination plant in a remote town breaks down. The manufacturer has a 'digital lock' preventing local mechanics from fixing it. They have to fly a technician in from Perth, taking 3 days. The town runs out of water. Is 'Right to Repair' a life-or-death issue here?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC39_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "AI climate models predict a town will be unliveable (no water) in 20 years. Insurance companies use this public data to deny coverage today. The town dies economically immediately, becoming a ghost town before the water even runs out. Is the prediction a self-fulfilling prophecy?"
  },
  {
    "id": "AUC40_WAT",
    "domain": "Water",
    "prompt": "Water trading markets use high-frequency trading bots to buy and sell water rights. The price fluctuates wildly, making it impossible for a small family farm to budget for irrigation, while hedge funds profit. Should algorithms be allowed to trade essential survival resources?"
  }
]