Iwant to talk about the price Australians are being asked to pay for the latest tech revolution.

We are, arguably, being asked to surrender ... our stories, our voice, our culture, our identity and, ultimately, our Australianess.

I call it The Big Steal.

We all lived through the first Big Steal when our ideas, work and creative content were hoovered up by the internet. And now there are those who expect us to stand aside and let it happen all over again. We must not.

Some will disagree with me and say the era that is now unfolding is just structural change or an incremental digital dis-inter-mediation - a new normal. It is not.

Make no mistake, we are at the dawn of the next new digital landscape, and yet we are being challenged to accept another wave of publicly endorsed theft, and a

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