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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Tech Media Tax

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

The podcast explores Australia's failed attempts to regulate tech companies through media taxes and social media bans, highlights a potential US-Iran nuclear deal with sanctions relief, raises concerns over a rare hantavirus outbreak, and analyzes UK election dynamics and China's

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

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  • Hon Paul Goldsmith mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 07 May 2026 6 May · 30s
    I'm sure there'll be plenty, but not huge. I mean, there were 90 complaints according to the annual report last year. So we're not talking about huge numbers. And the point is that they've got the media council, which will be there to uphold journalistic standards if people want to do it. But ultimately, the biggest thing is media are vying for attention with other things such as TikTok and Facebook. The primary value is that they can demonstrate that they've sound independent
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Sample framings

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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

government intervention fails against global tech giants

Full Show Podcast: 07 May 2026
6 May
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