News Corp (who lobbied to get this bill created) already did a lot of that this year [1] - over the last few decades, they had bought up most of the newspapers

News Corp (who lobbied to get this bill created) already did a lot of that this year [1] - over the last few decades, they had bought up most of the newspapers in regional Australia, and then ended up deciding they were unviable and shuttered 125 of them in May this year. They're keeping some kind of digital version but let go basically all the local reporters, photographers, etc. and closed all the local offices, and I think just run all the remaining online versions out of just a handful of locations now. 1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/news-corp-makes-regional-papers-digital-only/12295408 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/news-corp-makes-regio...