All of the news where I live is paywalled.

Why should Facebook pay for content that users cannot even access? Surely anyone who is actually paying for access isn't finding articles from Facebook - they are getting the news directly from the source.

The only content that isn't paywalled is from ABC, but their definition of "local" news is national news which happens to be a story about something that happened here. Usually reported on so poorly it's obvious the journalist lives a few thousand kilometres away and doesn't really understand the issue at all.

The state of journalism in Australia is really bad - but I don't think Facebook paying Murdoch did anything at all to fix things. If anything news is even worse now than it was few years ago when the deal was originally signed.

The government needs to go back to the drawing board and re-think their approach. Personally i'd like to see something similar to our health system where we have a national journalism budget dedicated to funding private journalists the same way Medicare funds businesses in the medical industry.

And make sure there are strict rules around ethical journalism and also encourage original reporting - zero funding if you re-hash news broken by someone else.