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Google can afford a slice of its billions to help sustain journalism, Labor says – The Guardian

Andrew Leigh accuses Google of a ‘misleading scare campaign’ in its bid to take down a proposed ACCC scheme to make tech giants pay media companies for content

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Googles misleading scare campaign should not stop the trillion-dollar search engine making fair payments for Australian news content, Labor has told parliament.
The shadow assistant treasurer, Andrew Leigh, said Australian journalism was struggling, newspapers were closing and Google could afford to share a small slice of their billions in profits with the news media that is fundamental to Australian democracy.
There is a proposed new law in Australia called the News Media Bargaining Code. We …

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