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Key parliamentary report focuses on decision by Facebook owner to abandon three-year-old deal to pay for news contentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian government should consider imposing a “digital platform levy” – a tax on tech companies like Meta and Google – as well as establishing a fund to help traditional news media organisations “strengthen alternative income streams”, a parliamentary committee has recommended.The government-controlled joint select committee on social media and Australian society has released its second interim report, focused on Meta’s decision to abandon its deals with Australian news organisations under the

Labour invite the public to share their experiences, views and ideas on fixing the NHS in a nation-wide consultationGood morning. When the Labour government came into power, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, declared on his first day in office “the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken”. The government is going to published a 10-year health plan to fix it, and it is due to be published next spring.Streeting has said the plan will involve three main elements: moving from analogue to digital; more focus on primary care, not hospital care; and more focus on prevention. Keir

Industry bodies say over-ordering is eroding profitability as big sellers clamp down on practiceShoppers with a habit of returning goods bought online to retailers will send back £1,400 of products each this year, totalling £6.6bn, a UK report has found.Serial returners account for 11% of shoppers, but are on course to account for almost a quarter of the £27bn forecast returns this year, according to the report by the return logistics company ZigZag and the research company Retail Economics. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/21/serial-returners-send-back-66bn-of-online-purchases-a-year-in-uk-report-finds Author : Joanna Partridge Publish date : 2024-10-21 07:00:08 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to