Second, the larger news businesses were not favoured. In Australia, smaller publishers often did better than, say, Rupert Murdoch’s news business on a relative basis. In Canada, monies were distributed on a per capita basis, meaning a two-person newsroom is treated the same as one with 200 journalists. In short, bargaining codes like Australia’s NMBC and Canada’s Online News Act put news businesses on more equal terms with the dominant platforms, in ways not otherwise possible.