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Media Bargaining Code - A tax by another name

Media Bargaining Code - A tax by another name

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Stephen Spartacus
Feb 24, 2021
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is getting all sorts of rhetorical pats on his head for bringing Facebook and Google to heal with this media bargaining code nonsense.

Rubbish. This whole thing is terrible policy and as I predicted, the only losers will be taxpayers and consumers.

This was nothing more than a subsidy to the major incumbent legacy media. But po…

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