Archive · 13 Aug 2026
Australia To Push Big Tech Toward More Local News Deals
Australia is a country with big technology companies like Google and Meta.
These companies show news from newspapers and TV stations on their websites and apps.
Many people thought the tech companies should pay for showing that news.
Australia made one of the first laws in the world to force them to pay.
Now Australia wants to do even more.
The government is pushing these companies to sign more deals with local news organisations.
Local news outlets are smaller news groups that cover their own communities.
A new law about this is coming to Parliament on Thursday.
If it passes, tech companies will have to make even more deals with local news.
This could help news companies earn more money for their work.
Australia was one of the first countries to introduce laws requiring tech giants like Google and Meta to pay for publishers' content.
The country is now pushing the companies to sign more deals with local news organisations.
New legislation on media licensing laws is expected to be introduced in Parliament on Thursday.
The report was published by Reuters.
The measures target major tech companies that distribute news content.
- Who
- The Australian government and tech giants Google and Meta, along with local news organisations.
- What
- Australia is pushing big tech companies to sign more deals with local news outlets under new media licensing laws.
- When
- Thursday, when the new legislation is expected to be introduced in Parliament.
- Where
- Australia
- Why
- To extend Australia's pioneering effort to make tech giants pay for publishers' content.
- Country
- Australia
- Targeted companies
- Google, Meta
- Action
- Push tech giants to sign more deals with local news organisations
- Legislation
- Media licensing laws
- Expected introduction
- Thursday in Parliament
- Context
- One of the first countries to make tech giants pay for publishers' content
- Source
- Reuters