Australian journalism is important for our democracy. Having strong public interest journalism means a well-informed community and an informed community means a stronger democracy.

Many Australians now find their news online. It’s been a dramatic shift in the way we consume news from unfolding a newspaper at the kitchen table over breakfast to unlocking a phone and reading it on the train or over lunch. You can now get the news in the way and at a time that suits you.

But the move to digital has not come without a cost. Big social media sites and search engines have been able to use content produced by journalists in Australia without paying for it. It comes at the same time as advertising, once the “rivers of gold” for newspapers, is now dominated by big tech companies.

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