News Bargaining Incentive (nbi)

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This FOI release contains email correspondence from February 2025 between Treasury officials and Meta representatives regarding the News Bargaining Incentive (NBI) policy. Treasury's Assistant Secretary Tony McDonald and officer Aidan Storer agreed to meet with Meta's Head of Policy Cheryl Seeto and Mia Garlick to discuss digital platforms issues. The emails show routine scheduling of a meeting for Tuesday, 11 February 2025 between 12pm and 2pm in Canberra. The documents are administrative in nature—no policy analysis, costings, modelling outputs, or substantive policy positions are disclosed in this excerpt. The correspondence indicates Treasury engaged with Meta during the period of NBI policy development, though the specific content of discussions and any policy advice remain undisclosed or redacted.