Division
Anthony Albanese Right around the world, the organisations that invest in the news are losing revenue to the tech platforms that use their work. Television, radio and newspaper newsrooms, including the National Press Gallery here in Parliament House, have felt the effects through budget cuts, staff reductions and increased workloads. I want to say to Australia's journalists, news producers, editors, photographers and videographers: we have your back. The sustainability of our news sector must be addressed, and it must be addressed urgently, because a healthy news sector is essential for a flourishing democracy. Without broadly accepted objective facts, reasoned debate becomes impossible. We talk not to each other but past each other. It makes it harder for us to maintain our great Australian sense of optimism. We literally stop being on the same page. This legislation will help keep 28 million Australians on that same page. In a world where lies are routinely spread by bad actors, sometimes by images that are literally not real, truthful and accurate news is more important than ever. In its absence, debate is too often replaced by anger, discourse by shouting, democratic discussion by abuse and cooperation by division. As we all know, this trend, tragically, is global. But we can counter it. With this legislation, Australia is now once again taking leadership on making digital technology work for people—making sure that platforms make an appropriate contribution to the news that they rely on and from which they make enormous profits. We are showing the way to support the fourth estate, and, once again, we offer our policy as a model to the democratic world. The News Bargaining Incentive is world-leading legislation that will help keep our media sector vibrant and sustainable into the future. It is bipartisan, and it is strong. The original news media bargaining code was designed to give Australian media companies a fair shot at doing deals with some of the largest c
House of Representatives, 2026-08-19. negative: ayes 11, noes 69.
Question
Anthony Albanese Right around the world, the organisations that invest in the news are losing revenue to the tech platforms that use their work. Television, radio and newspaper newsrooms, including the National Press Gallery here in Parliament House, have felt the effects through budget cuts, staff reductions and increased workloads. I want to say to Australia's journalists, news producers, editors, photographers and videographers: we have your back. The sustainability of our news sector must be addressed, and it must be addressed urgently, because a healthy news sector is essential for a flourishing democracy. Without broadly accepted objective facts, reasoned debate becomes impossible. We talk not to each other but past each other. It makes it harder for us to maintain our great Australian sense of optimism. We literally stop being on the same page. This legislation will help keep 28 million Australians on that same page. In a world where lies are routinely spread by bad actors, sometimes by images that are literally not real, truthful and accurate news is more important than ever. In its absence, debate is too often replaced by anger, discourse by shouting, democratic discussion by abuse and cooperation by division. As we all know, this trend, tragically, is global. But we can counter it. With this legislation, Australia is now once again taking leadership on making digital technology work for people—making sure that platforms make an appropriate contribution to the news that they rely on and from which they make enormous profits. We are showing the way to support the fourth estate, and, once again, we offer our policy as a model to the democratic world. The News Bargaining Incentive is world-leading legislation that will help keep our media sector vibrant and sustainable into the future. It is bipartisan, and it is strong. The original news media bargaining code was designed to give Australian media companies a fair shot at doing deals with some of the largest c
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