Turns out everyone was focused on the wrong tech giant. After weeks of discussion about whether Google would make good on threats to pull out of Australia over the planned News Media Bargaining Code, it’s Facebook that has caused the biggest disruption. 
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For those of us working in media and communications, last year passed by in somewhat of a blur. 
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A year of COVID-induced border shutdowns has seen state politics rival Canberra for space on newspaper front pages.  
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To some, like ABC business reporter David Chau, it was an expensive gamble from a company who’s usually the one setting the odds.
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Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt once wrote that we no longer live in democracies but “media democracies”, where politicians battle for attention in a news cycle predisposed to the negative and superficial.
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By Conal Hanna
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It was a high-spending budget full of new initiatives but the biggest immediate talking point from Budget 2020 was the bringing forward of previously announced personal income tax cuts.
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By Streem CEO Elgar Welch
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Australia’s national obsession with property prices has evaporated in the face of the pandemic, judging by media reports on the topic over the past six months.
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