THE RORT · DOSSIER · THE NEWS BARGAINING INCENTIVESTATUS · IN FORCE SINCE 27 AUGUST 2026
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The News Bargaining Incentive

Status In force since 27 August 2026

A charge on large digital platforms designed to collect no net revenue, offset in full by deals with Australian news businesses; the rate took three values (2.25, 2.5, 2.75 per cent) and the publisher-deal count needed for a full offset also took three values (four, six, eight) before Royal Assent on 26 August 2026.

Last on record
2026-09
Named in
1 article
Across
1 case

Named in 1 article across 1 case 4 connections: companies 4

Key figure on file
$0
The government's stated collection target for the scheme as designed. Treasury's November 2025 consultation paper states: "The intention of the News … Treasury, November 2025 [1]
1
Articles naming it
1
Cases it recurs across
4
Linked in the graph
1
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Media Ownership$0The government's stated collection target for the scheme as designed. Treasury's November 2025 consultation paper states: "The intention of the New…1 article →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. $0The government's stated collection target for the scheme as designed. Treasury's November 2025 consultation paper states: "The intention of the News Bargaining Incentive (the incentive) is that the Government will collect no revenue from it." A platform that does enough of the right deals owes nothing.Source: Treasury, November 2025 [1]The levy that was designed to raise nothing →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 1 article that names the News Bargaining Incentive, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about the News Bargaining Incentive.

Evidence strength · 17 sources across 1 article
  • Primary 3
  • Official 3
  • Masthead 2
  • Trade 8
  • 1 not yet graded
Primary
the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official
the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead
a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade
specialist or trade press
How sources are graded

1 of 1 article is graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

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The 4 names most often in the same articles as The News Bargaining Incentive. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name The News Bargaining Incentive: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. Under How we know, the sources are those articles' references, counted once each and tiered only where the desk declared a tier; a grade beside an article is its weakest headline finding, shown only where every headline finding is graded. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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