The Australian government has introduced content quotas on global streamers.

The rules require Netflix , Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure – or 7.5% of their revenues – on local originals, whether they are dramas, children’s shows, docs, or arts and educational programs.

Following the announcement, the legislation will be introduced into the Australia parliament.

Australia’s Labor government has long planned to being in the quotas as part of its Revive cultural policy, but months and months of delays had left the local industry wondering how committed their political leaders were to the plan. Global streamers have broadly rejected the necessity of quotas, claiming their lo

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