PETER GRIFFIN: Time to join Australia’s bubble on tech regulation

PETER GRIFFIN: Time to join Australia’s bubble on tech regulation
Peter Griffin
As someone who lost a chunk of my income when the New Zealand Listener shut down three weeks ago, news of the government’s $50 million support package for the media is bittersweet.Would German magazine publisher Bauer Media have clung on if it knew the relief was coming? No. Bauer didn’t even apply for the wage subsidy in March and this package wouldn’t have helped its cash flow issues anyway. Print media was largely overlooked today.But Bauer had already made its decision, probably over one of those long Sunday lunches in Ham...

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