Greens may back forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news if ABC is included

Sarah Hanson-Young says Coalition needs to fix the draft code to save public interest journalism and if it did Greens could back it

The Greens have signalled they could support a code to force Google and Facebook to pay for the value they receive from the distribution of Australian journalism if it is extended to cover the ABC, and if the Coalition comes up with a rescue package for the news wire service AAP.

Its communications spokeswoman, senator Sarah Hanson-Young, told Guardian Australia the Greens were reserving their position until they saw the Morrison government's legislation but said: If the government wants to save journalism in Australia, then they need to deliver more than a sugar hit to Murdoch.