Andras,

Your assertions are highly filtered to obscure the truth:

1 Foxtel was required to be a restricted access channel to prevent it from competing for ad revenue with other channels and still pays a motza in licensing fees.
2 Subsidies are given for producing indigenous content which makes a loss.
3 Foxtel does not make $bns in profit, in fact, is presently making a loss.
4 Foxtel was formed as cooperation between Fox in the US and Telstra

I wonder how the lefties like the idea of money going from Google to their old enemy, NewsCorp, which, incidentally, is now an American company owned by an American citizen. Oh, the complications and shite storm the Morrison government is bringing down on itself - as if it doesn't have enough problems already.

Here's a thought, not that I care about any of these guys, but, if these media outlets have already been paid for their news content as explained, with money from advertisers, then they have been paid for it.
That's the first point, then moving forward, the news/information has been released to the world and is now FREELY available to all. I have always wondered why anyone would have to pay for second hand news, when it is no longer exclusive to the entity that released it, fully paid for, with their full consent and knowledge.
It is a most incomprehensible and idiotic idea, to expect anyone to pay again, every time another entity uses that same freely available information.
This smacks of the same hypocrisy as the radio stations having to pay some music bank, which allegedly gives the money to the owners of the respective songs.
Yeah, right.
So why must third parties have to pay again and again when the song is sold to the public, and not given for free.
The song has been sold, that's it.
Who plays it and for what reason is irrelevant.
Just because the original model/method of media domination has dwindled into irrelevance, pretty much.
They are floundering and so are clutching at straws or anything else they can get their hands on, just to stop from going under.
But more importantly and more relevant is; who are those behind this unconscionable and egregious money grab.
Let's begin with Murdoch and then move onto his mates at the WEF, and start identifying the scum within, lurking in the shadows, hiding from prying eyes and camera's.
I'll leave you to fill in the rest, but just remember, evil has re-badged itself, and it's new poison is now called; THE GREAT RESET!