> The most likely outcome is that Google will not withdraw from Australia but merely blacklist Australian media domains from search results. That is not an opt

> The most likely outcome is that Google will not withdraw from Australia but merely blacklist Australian media domains from search results. That is not an option presently on the table. They can either withdraw Google Search from all news (hard, but maybe possible), or they can withdraw all of Google Search (easy), or they can participate (at the cost of their IP). Note that "all news" does not mean "a few large news companies operating in Australia" or even "every news company operating in Australia", it means "all news", including CCTV, DW, NYT etc.