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Google to launch news website in Australia in campaign against new law

Google is reviving plans to launch its own news website in Australia within weeks, as the search engine fights world-first proposed laws on content payments.
 
The launch of the News Showcase product as early as next month is Google's latest tactic in a high-profile campaign against the Australian government's planned legislation to make the company pay local news providers for content that appears in its search engine.
 
Google Australia Chief Executive Mel Silva told a parliamentary hearing last week the company would pull its flagship search tool from Australia if the laws, the first of their kind in the world, went ahead.
 


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