Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) Share this | Hansard source

In that context, we know we've got competing local news media. It's great to have a diversity of newspapers across our suburbs and our towns. It's terrific. But sometimes it's difficult for two news outlets to be sustainable. We've seen some fall by the wayside. Is it good enough, for example, for a digital platform to make a deal with just one syndicated owner covering, say, all the regions that they represent and leave the other player and their competition out of such a deal?