Senate debates

Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2021; In Committee

10:18 am

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

Organisations might revisit the fairness of such a contract. There's nothing in this that would overturn the fairness of those contracts and would cause the minister to assess whether those deals are fair? I know, indeed, that part of the assessment would have to be whether or not the digital platform has made a significant contribution. So if a digital platform puts forward, 'We've already cut these particular deals; we think that's significant,' and you've got a whole bunch of new players who want to participate in arbitration because they've been locked out, surely that might indicate that deals that have already been done aren't significant enough to qualify as a significant contribution and therefore they should be revisited.

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