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Australian Broadcasting Corporation managing director David Anderson has reiterated the organisation's changed stance towards Google and Facebook, telling the National Press Club during an address that it would be pushing for payment from these digital entities in the event that they are persuaded to part with cash.

The Australian competition watchdog has called for input from the public as it looks to develop a draft mandatory code that will prescribe what digital companies like Facebook and Google should pay for the use of Australian news content.

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.

The Australian Government has asked the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code of conduct before the end of July to make digital companies pay for the use of news from local publications.