Google says Australian law could threaten search

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Google has attacked an Australian proposal to force technology giants to pay news outlets. Jordan Hayne is a political reporter with ABC in Canberra, and explains the rationale for the so-called News Media Bargaining Code. And Belinda Barnet, senior lecturer in media at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne tells us how the proposed law would impact search giants like Google as well as news organisations, if it goes ahead. Also in the programme, the BBC's Tamasin Ford considers the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on gender inequality. We hear from Dr Anthony Robotham of the University of Plymouth why he led the development of a more environmentally friendly recyclable face shield for use by workers hoping to protect themselves from contracting Covid-19. Plus as more and more companies announce they don't expect workers to return to the office until well into 2021, our regular workplace commentator Peter Morgan asks whether working beyond home, on beaches, say, or in the Tuscan hills, is likely to become the new normal. (Picture: A Google logo. Picture credit: Getty Images.)