Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

Under the current drafting, the anti-avoidance provisions prevent digital platforms from retaliating against news businesses on the basis of having entered into an agreement to pay remuneration under the code. The plan is to clarify, via these amendments, that digital platforms would not be penalised from engaging in normal commercial practices such as paying different remuneration amounts to different news businesses and promoting or boosting a news business's news content as part of the terms of those commercial deals. The scope also of the news content that's captured by the anti-avoidance provisions is also clarified here. It will be made abundantly clear that a news source must regularly produce news content that's the subject of bargaining and arbitration. So that's the definition of covered news.