Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Gina Rushton is filling in to get you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House.

The disproportionate excitement from those in the Canberra bubble that Parliament House's beloved Aussie's cafe had upgraded its ageing coffee machine could have been a warning sign this non-sitting week would be a political snoozefest but in the end the freshly caffeinated press gallery was kept busy.

On Wednesday Prime Minister Anthony Albanese returned to his old stomping ground at the University of Sydney, minus the mullet, to reveal how Australia plans to approach era-defining technological change.

In a much-hyped speech, the PM moved to centralise oversight of artificial intelligence and announced that Australia would force data centres to minimise water use and fund their own power supply under mandatory national rules.

As the ABC's chief digital political respondent Clare Armstrong reported, Albanese said Australia had a narrow window of opportunity to establish AI's "social licence".

Artists have taken some heart from the PM's promise they will retain control over how their works are used by tech giants, but told Armstrong they want a seat at the table in his new office for AI just to make sure.

It is a silver lining for Aussie music and books, but as the ABC's national AI reporter Cam Wilson pointed out, "there was little new in the speech about how we're going to handle the society-wide impacts of AI outside of data centres".

Meanwhile on Wednesday, the Liberal party sent its supporters a discussion paper canvassing options to modernise itself following rolling electoral defeats and a loss of support among professional women, people with Chinese ancestry, and those from suburban electorates with high multicultural populations.

By the next election, the paper noted, one in five voters will have been born after the year 2000 with "no historical memory of September 11, the Howard government [or] a world without smartphones".

After the most recent federal election loss, the party established a commission to help generate ideas to win back voters chaired by Queensland senator James McGrath. In the email McGrath said the party was in the "political fight of our lives" as "core demographics continue to turn away from us without looking back".

The paper about the party's future was circulated amid a flurry of condemnation that echoed an episode from the party's past.

Liberal Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was rebuked for sharing a clip on social media that falsely claimed Labor was "importing" Indian migrants.

Price was sacked from the shadow cabinet in September last year for suggesting the government's migration program favoured Indians in order to help its electoral fortunes.

Liberal leader Angus Taylor has said he would review the Northern Territory senator's social media use.

Taylor's biggest political rival, Andrew Hastie, is the latest politician to reportedly sign a book deal, telling The Sydney Morning Herald that publisher Allen & Unwin approached him after he began writing on Substack about his convictions and "the direction of Australia".

Not to be outdone, another politician vying to be the face of Australia's right, Barnaby Joyce, also this week revealed he'll publish a book before Christmas offering an inside view of One Nation.

Time will tell if it will chart better than his 2018 memoir, which sold 1570 copies in the first month.

The release date for former Liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg's memoir, co-written by cricket writer Gideon Haigh, was also revealed this week.

The ABC understands he was sending the pre-order link to friends and former colleagues following the announcement.

When he's not writing his book, One Nation's treasury spokesman has been arguing the RBA should be able to direct the government's economic policy.

The two-time deputy prime minister's attempts to establish One Nation's economic credentials this week were somewhat overshadowed by the views of his party colleague Senator Malcolm Roberts whom Joyce was pressured to condemn.

The senator attracted criticism after the re-emergence of comments he made about American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who he said was a "beacon of hope around the world", and Russian president Vladimir Putin, who had "earned his respect" for invading Ukraine.

"Just because one member of One Nation says something, it doesn't mean it's policy," Joyce said, distancing himself from Roberts, who also this week came under fire over an essay in which he promoted the works of a holocaust denier and an image of an antisemitic mural.

The headlines came in the wake of the latest round of polls, which proved a mixed bag for One Nation but were certainly a shift after the consecutive boosts from surveys earlier in the year.

A Resolve poll from the Nine newspapers this week showed support had slipped for the party and a DemosAU/Capital Brief poll published on Monday showed voters weren't very impressed by Pauline Hanson's appearance at the National Press Club last month. They were still receptive to her vision to decrease migration but were less swayed by her calls for a monoculture and attacks on the public broadcasters.This echoed a June Redbridge/Accent poll that found Hanson's net favourability rating had dropped in that month as had the party's primary vote.

In contrast, this week, a Roy Morgan poll showed One Nation's primary support was up and now ahead of the Labor party.

It is hard to say whether Hanson is bothered by the polling or press but she appeared relaxed in a series of Instagram stories from an Australian in Sicily's Grand Hotel San Pietro where the One Nation leader was spotted relaxing with billionaire Gina Rinehart this week.

Bellissimo!