joeyjeremiah

3. Australians barely notice.

Searching for "plumbers in my area", "hospital near me", "Bondi Beach weather this weekend", "2021 Australian federal election" all starts to break or show dated results. Latency won't be the problem, relevance will be the problem.

That's just not true. The proposed legislation does not overtly favour News Corp any more than any other Australian news organisation. News Corp will likely continue to dominate in Australia only because of its reach and it's ability to rely on a real estate website to make the books look good).

SBS, ABC, Guardian, Fairfax/Nine all get their share of the pie in the legislation.

Spot on. We have a direct ability to not just vote but also run for office in Australia. Even if you live in a safe electorate your senate vote certainly matters. Australian governance isn't perfect but it basically works, and Australia objecitvely has succeeded as a result, even when compared against nations with similar contexts e.g. Argentina.

Foreign-owned corporations are in no way subject to Australian citizens other than commercial motives. I don't blame them for that, but I support my government's desires to regular them on my behalf.