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Stiglitz backs Australia’s Big Tech media code

Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz has thrown his support behind Australia’s proposed mandatory news bargaining code for big tech companies, but said the...

Industry joins forces to boost digital literacy

3 December 2020 | by David McClure

In March this year, with COVID-19 starting to impact the Australian economy, the Federal Minister for Industry, Science, and Technology Karen Andrews convened a virtual roundtable of technology company...

Media, Big Tech code by the end of the year

18 November 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The government still plans to introduce legislation imposing a bargaining code between tech giants and media companies, with Google outlining its conditions for agreeing to such a concept. The...

The future of drones across Australian industry

12 November 2020 | by Stuart Corner

There’s a huge potential for Australia’s drone industry because in many ways we are world leaders in drone regulation and usage, but one of the biggest challenges this nascent...

ACCC chief seeks tighter Big Tech regulation

21 October 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Competition tsar Rod Sims has pushed for further regulation of Big Tech, including strengthened merger rules and unfair practices prohibitions. Mr Sims, the chair of the Australian Competition and...

Govt must prepare for life after Big Tech: Report

21 October 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The government needs to fast-track significant privacy reforms, put a cap on contracts handed to tech giants and invest in the startup sector in order to address an over-reliance...

Govt cut ABC and SBS from tech news code: Sims

17 September 2020 | by Denham Sadler

It was the government’s decision to exclude the ABC and SBS from the news content bargaining code with Google and Facebook rather than the competition watchdog which designed the...

Justice Kirby on why we must fight for privacy

8 September 2020 | by Liam Tung

Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby recalls the one privacy principle he helped develop at the OECD in the late 1970s that was made redundant when Google emerged in...

Facebook threat to ban news content in Aust

1 September 2020 | by Denham Sadler

After initially staying out of the fray and letting Google go on the offensive, social giant Facebook has now gone nuclear over the government plan to force it into...

Ed Husic warns on ACCC Google news plan

26 August 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The competition watchdog’s plan to force Google and Facebook to enter revenue sharing deals with news companies risked turning into a “bailout” for the likes of News Corp Australia,...

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