Australian newspapers deliberately cannibalised their print classifieds to build digital ones – and produced two of the world’s best marketplaces. Why the number one platform captures nearly everything.
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Australian Media’s Great Unwinding: Selling the Assets That Funded Journalism
Nine sold Domain for A$1.4 billion, News Corp sold Foxtel for A$3.4 billion, and newsrooms shrank. Where Australian media money went and what the News Bargaining Incentive tries to fix.
The NBN: Australia’s Biggest Infrastructure Project and Its Most Expensive Compromise
Australia built a wholesale-only broadband monopoly, then swapped fibre for copper to save money, and is now paying to put the fibre back. The structural reform worked; the execution is the lesson.
Optus: Three Failures in Three Years and What They Cost
A data breach, a national outage and a firewall upgrade that broke emergency calls for 13 hours. How Optus’s failures reshaped Australian privacy law and telecommunications regulation.
Telstra: How a Monopoly Sold Its Network and Bet Everything on Mobile
Telstra was paid to give up the copper network that made it a monopoly. What replaced it: 25 million mobile services, an infrastructure business, and a reliability brand under strain.
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