I initially thought this was going to be about the new [1] anti-encryption law's in Australia... another concerning matter of government intervention...
[1] https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio...
[1] https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio...
Check the News.com.au homepage and observe it looks like a worse Daily Mail.
I think it could be the other way around, where people expecting news online and free has meant declining revenues, click-bait and ad-infested news articles.
News aggregators get the user's onto their site without the overhead.
https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/rgs-statement-o...
Not sure what happened after that...