When Google starts paying their fair share of tax in Australia, I will start listening to them.
Though, in fairness, the "traditional news media" pay as little as they can get away with, as well.
They do, however, employ people in Australia, --- how many do Google employ?
If I could go in & take McDonald's burgers, go back to my place & either sell them, or hand them out, Macca's would get a bit stroppy.
Maybe the Oz media's product includes a lot of "nothingburgers", but it is their product, why should they have to give it away, free to a company which does very little in return?
My rule is pretty much "getting your news off the Internet is like getting your nutrients from roadkill".
I find that the actual News segments on TV are reasonable ----- there isn't a lot of time for journalists to conspire with flinty eyed agents of the Kremlin, Wall Street, the Iluminati, the Lizard people, or whatever, given the time constraints they work under.
When I worked for CH7, I noticed they got things right with a couple of hours to do it in, more often the local (then Murdoch) Sunday paper which had all week!