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Search giant Google, one of the companies that will be affected by a government-mandated code that will set a fee it will have to pay news publishers when it brings up their content in search results, is now saying it is doing these companies a favour by featuring their content in the results.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government would not be looking to use location data to track people anonymously in order to find out if they are following the rules which have been put in place to keep the coronavirus pandemic in check within the country.

Australia's national broadband network is likely to come under an increasing load from Monday onwards as many of the nation's workers are forced to work from home due to the coronavirus outbreak.