The Fold

The Australian big tech revolution rolls on

Publisher and writer Tim Burrowes returns to The Fold to update Duncan Greive on the profound change taking place in Australian media’s regulatory landscape.

02 Dec 2025

The Fold

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2025 has been a year of profound change in the regulatory landscape for Australian media. There is a social media ban for under 16s, which goes live next week. There are new local content spending rules for the big paid streaming platforms. And there is a revised version of the news bargaining code which aims squarely at Meta. Tim Burrowes has covered all this at Mumbrella, and rejoins The Fold to update Duncan Greive on what our near neighbour is doing – and what our government could copy (but probably wont).