House debates Bills

News Media Bargaining (Administration) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail

Wednesday, 19 August 2026 House of Representatives

Anika Wells

Anika Wells Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sport

12:15 pm

I thank the member for Wentworth for her amendment. We won't support it today, although I appreciate the intent of the amendment. I can say that I and my office have also had those meetings with those stakeholders. I think at the moment there's a disconnect between the intent of the bill and perhaps a requirement or a request of an explicit nature for the bill to attend to. We will continue to work that through. You have my word on that. I think we share the same values on this, and we're trying to get to the same outcome.

Ironically, I have Google waiting for me in my office, because this has all run a bit longer than we expected. May I say, I will immediately relay this to Google on behalf of our shared stakeholders in this space.

Question negatived.

Bill agreed to.

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