I don’t think the underlying reason has anything to do with the government pressure or local news. I think this has everything to do with a very powerful media

I don’t think the underlying reason has anything to do with the government pressure or local news. I think this has everything to do with a very powerful media company, let’s call them News Corp, successfully lobbying for a new income stream propping up falling numbers and the lobbying not being to hard to do with open corruption in AU government. When Google/Facebook had the temporary news publishing ban, a variety of smaller news sources surfaced with a broader spectrum of content and opinions. When an agreement was made, visiting Google News was a wall of News Corp trash content and the smaller news providers had gone.