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Australia will force Google and Facebook to pay media outlets for their content, the government announced Monday, vowing to lead the world in making the tech giants share lucrative advertising revenues with traditional media.
AUSTRALIA

Australia to force Google, Facebook to pay for news content

Australia’s new regulations will also cover the sharing of data, and the ranking and display of news content, to be enforced by binding dispute resolution mechanisms and penalties

  • Holly Robertson
4 min read
High-rise buildings are seen through smoke from bushfires during sunset in Sydney, Australia. (Reuters/Stephen Coates)
AUSTRALIA

Australians trapped by bushfires told ‘too late to leave’

Authorities told residents in fire-stricken regions to seek shelter, warning they had no time to escape before their communities were engulfed

  • Holly Robertson
  • Daniel De Carteret
4 min read
Cardinal George Pell was convicted in December of sexually abusing the two boys in 1996 and 1997 at St Patrick’s Cathedral shortly after he was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne. (Reuters/Mark Dadswell)
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL

Australia’s Cardinal Pell loses child sex abuse appeal

Pell had been trying to overturn the verdicts and six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s

  • Holly Robertson
4 min read
Cardinal George Pell was convicted in December of sexually abusing the two boys in 1996 and 1997 at St Patrick’s Cathedral shortly after he was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne. (Reuters/Mark Dadswell)
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL

Father hopes for justice as Cardinal Pell waits on appeal verdict

The former Vatican number three, is appealing against his conviction on five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys in the 1990s

  • Holly Robertson
3 min read