Upvoted. I think it's definitely worth pursuing well-thought out advocacy in countries besides US and China. Especially since this can be done in parallel with efforts in those countries.

A lot of people are working on the draft EU AI Act in Europe.

In Canada, parliament is considering Bill C-27 which may have a significant AI component. I do some work with an org called AIGS that is trying to help make that go well.

I'm glad to hear that some projects are underway in Australia and New Zealand and that you are pursuing this there!

As an aside, if you are located in Australia or New Zealand and would be interested in coordinating with me, please contact me through LessWrong on this account.

One potential source of leads for this might be the FLI Pause Giant AI Experiments open letter . I did a Ctrl+F search on there for "Australia" which had 50+ results and "New Zealand" which had 10+. So you might find some good people to connect with on there.