The article argues that Labor’s journalism fund has awarded millions of dollars to major media companies Nine and Seven without sufficient public accountability. It presents the payments as a Canberra-backed misuse of public money, alleging that the scheme rewards companies already benefiting from other forms of support.

Its central criticism is that the fund’s distribution lacks transparency and clear safeguards over how recipients use the money. The article frames this as “double-dipping”, although the supplied text does not provide specific payment amounts, programme rules or responses from the government or broadcasters.