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Google vs. Australia still remains a tangled web Industry leaders worldwide have strongly condemned Google’s plan to exit from Australia over the proposed news media bargaining code. Ouch. PUBLISHED BY TAGS: world’s most popular search engine Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo and the privacy-focused Duck Duck Go, and the market is wide open for each to comfortably occupy the nearly 90-95% market share that is currently under Google’s dominant fist. The ongoing Goo...

Switzer Daily 3 February 2021 The time has come for me to make my Australian political predictions for the next eighteen months, beginning with election dates. The first point to note is that the federal elections are, technically speaking, the fourth most proximate. The most proximate is the general election for all members of Western Australia’s Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. The fixed date is 13 March 2021. The second most proximate is the general election for all members of...

Regulator found a power imbalance between media and Google and Facebook  Australian government wants to pass a new law to force big tech to pay for news  Google has threatened to leave the Australian market if the code goes ahead Facebook said it may be forced to stop Australians from seeing news content    Microsoft says it would never threaten to leave and has supported the code 

Google and Facebook’s threat to cut off its customers shows their ‘entrenched disregard’ for Aussies, a high-profile inquiry has heard.

Technology by Finn McHugh   Big techs threats to punish Australians for proposed media reforms show its "sobering power" but are unlikely to be carried out, a senate inquiry has heard. Treasury and Communications Department officials will front the inquiry on Monday, as it sits for the second and final day. The federal government has stood firm in its push to force social media giants to pay for news content, despite an angry backlash from Facebook and ...

Technology by Finn McHugh   Big techs threats to punish Australians for proposed media reforms show its "sobering power" but are unlikely to be carried out, a senate inquiry has heard. Treasury and Communications Department officials will front the inquiry on Monday, as it sits for the second and final day. The federal government has stood firm in its push to force social media giants to pay for news content, despite an angry backlash from Facebook and ...

Google and Facebook’s threat to cut off its customers shows their ‘entrenched disregard’ for Aussies, a high-profile inquiry has heard.

There are renewed calls to overhaul political donation rules as new analysis reveals political parties have received over $1 billion in hidden donations over the past two decades.

Kangaroos on the NSW south coast. The federal government is yet to release its response to Graeme Samuel’s damning report on the state of the environmental systems meant to protect Australia’s wildlife. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP A key independent senator says he will not support a government plan to shift environmental approval powers to the states before the Coalition responds to a “scathing” review of conservation laws. Rex Patrick...

Preference whisperer Glenn Druery in lavish travel spend Save Normal text size Advertisement Controversial “preference whisperer” Glenn Druery charged taxpayers more than $150,000 in travel and other expenses while working as an adviser to then-senator Derryn Hinch, and also running a lucrative cash-for-votes business in state elections. Travel expense records obtained by The Sunday Age after a two-year Freedom of Information battle reveal a dramatic hike in trips Mr Druery took to M...