Michael Thompson

The prime minister has said that the deal is critical to a healthy democracy and that every single dollar would go back to journalists to pay for the

When someone says, right, that they are financially lucky, what are they referring to?

journalism.

Now, the exposure draft laws come two years after Meta withdrew from deals previously struck under the News Media Bargaining Code.

What are we kind of talking about here?

So these have been a long time coming, Sean.

It's been a big 24 hours in politics, and the Trump administration has nominated former Republican Congressman David Bratt as its ambassador to Australia.

Now, we talk about a long time coming.

It's been 15 months, Sean, since the last US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, actually left the country.

All right.

I'm already starting to get a feel for the way that you think about financial luck and

Does this mean then that you don't think luck just as a kind of almost like a supernatural thing plays a big role in financial outcomes?

So we've been...

ambassador-less since.

Bratt is a former academic who represented a Virginia district in the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2018.

He has an interesting background.

It's more about a combination of those other things?

One day.

I think anyone would appreciate a fear and greed trend is your friend t-shirt, but to have one on an ambassador...

who is not just an expert in divinity, but also in economics.