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Comment: Big Tech must face new rules with smart TV, speaker focus, Australian media demands

By Laurel Henning
  • 13 May 2022 07:11
  • 13 May 2022 07:11
Google and Meta’s multiple publishing agreements with Australian news companies reached over the last year have been touted by regulators and government as an outcome only possible because of the country’s media-bargaining code.
But the code has always been more of a threat to bring Big Tech to the negotiating

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Laurel Henning

Senior Correspondent


Laurel is a senior correspondent specializing in competition law, data privacy and security, in Australia and New Zealand. Laurel reports from Sydney on criminal-cartel legislation and white-collar crime, as well as competition and consumer lawsuits involving companies including Google, Meta Platforms and Apple. While at MLex Laurel has also reported boardroom disputes and shareholder campaigns agitating for changes to company strategy. Laurel joined MLex in 2013 and reported for five years on European energy and climate policies from Brussels. In that time, Laurel covered the regulation of emissions and technological developments pertaining to the energy sector within the EU, as well as the Paris agreement in 2015. A graduate of the University of Liverpool, Laurel studied English and French before beginning a career in journalism with MLex.

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