I think it's not as simple as that. What's classified as "News" ? A lab in japan, or Tesla having a press release on new battery tech ? A website update from U

I think it's not as simple as that. What's classified as "News" ? A lab in japan, or Tesla having a press release on new battery tech ? A website update from USGS on the Kilauea eruption ? A new project on hackaday ? Google probably does not want to be in a position where a creative lawyer hauls them into an AU court for imagined harm to the AU news companies losing out on opportunities to monetize. It's a hard call, and I can believe it if they say it may be better to move entirely out of Australia. No presence whatsoever. It was a hard call to determine how to deal with China as well, and I don't quite know where things stand there now. There's a long and contorted history.