Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee (part 2 of 3)

27 May 2026

Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:01
How these issues might evolve. 
00:03 - 00:42
Speaker 5
We understand that, Google is...  Like, their deals are coming to a close or reducing at mid this year, and Meta have walked away from their deals.  There's been...  You know, we've heard some stakeholder feedback that that the digital platforms might do deals or they may not do deals.  It's sort of... 

We won't know until the, MBI, the news bargaining incentive legislation is in place and the statutory payment scheme is in place.  That's when we'll know, what actions the digital platforms decide to take. 
00:43 - 01:06
Speaker 2
So, where I'm sort of trying to explore is the tension between, social media companies, you know, pursuing sort of independent...  Or in the...  Individual payment models with with with companies as opposed to the meeting the two two and a half percent profit requirement.  Do you see what I'm trying to say? 

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