Zoe Zamlos reported in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review that: “The Albanese government’s revised plan to tax technology giants that refuse to pay publishers could inadvertently cause major cuts in funding and job losses at Australia’s two biggest commercial news companies, News Corporation and Nine Entertainment.”
Today is the 54th annversary of the death of iconic film star Marilyn Monroe who said both:
“I have found freedom and independence, and I don’t intend to give them up.”
and
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented, or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anyone else.”
In 1962 Marilyn Monroe died at the age of 36.
Loved. Used. Totally unusal.
Human individuality in all its forms is what makes us human.
When we allow big powers of any type to replace individuals with inhuman power, we stop being what we are and what we need to be.
Journos’ jobs matter.
Geoff Fox, August 5, 2026, Melbourne, Australia
LEFT BEHIND BY ALBANESE 