Australia’s building a great system to fund local journalism — but it doesn’t want to use it

In 2022, I got cranky with the nation of Australia over its News Media Bargaining Code — its convoluted scheme to get money out of big tech companies pockets and into news companies . The idea in a nutshell was this: Two giant American tech companies, Google and Meta, had abused Australian news publishers by taking their stories and including them in their search results and social feeds. Publishe