Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This episode is a bit of a special episode –looking at some legislation in Australia that is currently underway – Has to do with the Government stepping in for the Monetisation of the news – which could ultimately mean the consolidation and control by legacy media of the information that you receive Might have, or may not have heard about this new bill that is going through parliament - likely to pass in Australia in the next week – called the News Media Bargaining Code On the 20 April 2020 - the Australian Government announced that it had directed the ACCC to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between Australian news media businesses and digital platforms – like Google (youtube) and Facebook What the ACCC says – “the production and dissemination of news provides broad benefits to society beyond those individuals who consume it. The proposed bargaining code is intended to address bargaining power imbalances b