Producers, directors, writers, actors, cinematographers, and creatives have been vocal in the media to garner political and public support for local content.
2023
“IP is a national asset that must be protected” - TV Tonight
Australian Screen Industry Unites to Champion Local Content and Local IP - FilmInk
Make It Australian win: Labor making streamers invest more in funding shakeup - Mediaweek
‘We owe it to Australians’: Bryan Brown takes streaming regulation debate to the National Press Club - IF Magazine
Australian government confirms streaming quotas for streaming platforms - News.com.au
Australia's Streaming Platforms Will Soon Be Required to Make More Local Movies and TV Shows - Concrete Playground
Australian actor Bryan Brown speaks at National Press Club - ABC
National Press Club Address: Bryan Brown - TV Tonight
‘Make local stuff!’: Bryan Brown’s passionate crusade for streamers to produce more Australian shows - The New Daily
Bryan Brown calls for higher Australian content on streaming services - ABC
Streaming quotas a ‘fight for culture’ - City News
Content quotas would spur next $700m MasterChef IP boom: ex-Nine CEO - Australian Financial Review
Screen industry wants rules to hang on to royalties - Daily Mail Australia
Taking Australian Stories to the World - Sydney Morning Herald
Australian show business backs content quotas - The Canberra Times
Streaming War Wages On As Producers Back 20 Per Cent Levy - B&T
Streamers could cope with 20 per cent levy, producers say - Sydney Morning Herald
Regulating streaming services: Government reveals timeline for content quotas - Mediaweek
Australia to launch new streaming quotas in 2024 - Kidscreen
Choose your fighter! Streaming wars go to the next level - Mediaweek
Australian streaming regulation news welcomed by the screen sector - ScreenHub
Australia's streaming quota debate: the final season - The West Australian
Australian Government to apply local content quotas to streamers from 2024 - Mumbrella
Streaming services will be required to produce local content - AdNews
Streamers to be Subject to Local Content Quotas From Next Year - Variety Australia
Streaming platform regulations could be good news for Australia’s screen sector - ScreenHub
Streaming giants to be required to make Australian films and TV under major rules shake-up - ABC
Government to force streamers to make Australian shows, movies - 9News
2022
The Heartbreak High reboot is a global hit. It also sends Australia a message - Sydney Morning Herald
Actors call for local streaming quotas - The Canberra Times
Bryan Brown wants people to be ‘inspired’ by ‘what Australians are doing’ - The Australian
SPA and MEAA put forward measures to shape National Cultural Policy - IF Magazine
SPA welcomes measures addressing Australian content on streaming platforms and national broadcasters - TV Blackbox
Aussie Government Floats SVOD Content Requirements - Kidscreen
Screen Producers Australia slams ‘weak’ streaming service reporting scheme - IF Magazine
Proposed local rules for Netflix, Disney ‘weak’, say screen producers - Australian Financial Review
Make it Australian relaunches campaign - TV Tonight
2021
Make it Australian campaign brings screen representatives to Canberra - IF Magazine
Screen industry turns up the heat for content quotas for streaming services - Mediaweek
SPA calls for streamers to spend 20 per cent of revenue on local commissions - IF Magazine
Government extends screen production assistance, confirms Producer Offset lift - IF Magazine
Roundup: Screen industry in Canberra - Mediaweek
ADG and AWG back call for streamers to face 20 per cent local content requirement - IF Magazine
Why it’s high time Australia had content quotas for streaming platforms - NME
Aussie actors Simon Baker, Bryan Brown, Marta Dusseldorp and Justine Clarke take demands to Canberra - The Australian
Bryan Brown helps secures tax win for Australia film industry - The West Australian
Bryan Brown and Simon Baker celebrate win after convincing government not to dump much-needed tax break for Australian film industry - Daily Mail Australia
Stars lobby for Netflix to face 20 per cent local content quota - Sydney Morning Herald
Australian actors including Simon Baker, Bryan Brown and Marta Dusseldorp descend on Parliament House to push for local content guarantees for streaming platforms - Daily Mail Australia
Show Me The Money - The Australian
Top Australian actors lobby federal MPs to back local content on streaming services - ABC
Aussie Stars Demand Netflix & Co Make More Local Content Before We ‘Fall Immediately Behind' - Pedestrian
Stars descend on Canberra for Aussie shows - 7News
Actors, producers in Canberra to push for local content - TV Tonight
Screen Creatives Visit Canberra to Call for Action on Local Content - FilmInk
Oz creatives call for levy on streamers - C21 Media
Australia has the best stories — help us tell them - The Australian
Screen Producers Australia Welcomes Government’s Commitment To Broadcast Quotas - B&T
Oz gov’t eyes 5% content levy on streamers - C21 Media
Inside story: How Bryan Brown and the Nationals saved Australian film - Sydney Morning Herald
Survey backs local quotas on Streaming platforms - TV Tonight
Majority of Aussies support local content levy on streamers, as SPA renews 20% quota calls - C21 Media
Back film and TV tax changes, industry tells MPs - Australian Financial Review
Streaming Aussie content debate resurfaces - The West Australian
Streamers should be forced to make more Aussie drama: report - The Age
Landmark report supports new rules for streaming services - TV Blackbox
Local TV and film industry wins as government agrees to more generous tax breaks - Sydney Morning Herald
The future of the Australian film industry - Disruptr
SPA urges government to maintain local content quotas - IF Magazine
Don't stop: Arts leaders plead for more help - Brisbane Times
Hands off local quotas - TV Tonight
SPA rejects calls for cuts to Australian content quotas - FilmInk
Dear Prime Minister: Creative industries unite to secure Australia's cultural future - ArtsHub
Screen Producers Australia expresses concerns about content quota suspension - RealScreen
Australian creators fear extension of 'emergency' TV content quotas - Sydney Morning Herald
As COVID-19 bites, industry lobbying pivots to the future - ScreenHub
'If our government wants cultural life to return, it must act now': an open letter from Australia's arts industry - The Guardian
Arts industry NSW: Policy reforms key to restarting industry - Daily Telegraph
Netflix, Apple and Stan could be required to boost Australian content - The Guardian
Australian content on screen - ABC
Screen Producers: quota suspension will delay recovery - TV Tonight
SPA urges new Aussie content regime - C21 Media
Australian guilds and industry bodies put up a united front on media reforms - IF Magazine
Oz industry unites in media reform call - C21 Media
Film industry calls for more local support after Hollywood incentive - Sydney Morning Herald
SPA blasts Free TV Australia’s case for deregulation - IF Magazine
Small business ombudsman says thousands of screen businesses will fail without TV quotas - Sydney Morning Herald
Half of kids' TV and Australian drama to disappear under new quota system, producers say - The Guardian
Oz producers lament lack of gov’t support - C21 Media
Australian TV dramas such as Neighbours feared to be at risk amid local content quota changes - ABC
Aussie producers blast media reforms - C21 Media
Film and documentary producers blast media reforms - C21 Media
Make it Australian campaign relaunches, refuses to accept defeat - ScreenHub
TV content quota changes mean networks and streaming platforms are ‘let off the hook’: screen industry - Mumbrella
SPA welcomes regulation of streamers - FilmInk
Government proposes local content obligations for SVODs, ABC, SBS - IF Magazine
Content quotas proposed for streaming services - ABC
Netflix could be required to spend millions on Australian content - Kidscreen
Streamers face Australian content levy - C21 Media
2020
2019
Make It Australian: Screen creatives call for action on local content - Mediaweek
New report calls for Netflix to support more Australian productions - Sydney Morning Herald
Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime: Australian content producers and the SVOD boom - Australian Financial Review
Politicians missing in action on local screen activity - ScreenHub
Labor and Australian Greens urge more support for screen sector - IF Magazine
Make it Australian captures political Zeitgeist - at last - ScreenHub
Loud and clear - Labor lays out the path to sector rebuild - ScreenHub
Make it Australian campaign heads back to Canberra - IF Magazine
Industry grabs new weapon in regulation fight - ScreenHub
Film industry wants local content requirements for streaming services - The Australian
Industry delegation lobbies for local content in Canberra - TV Tonight
Government commits to ‘platform-neutral’ media regulation - IF Magazine
Content quotas under review after ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry - TV Tonight
Make It Australian: Actors, producers & writers lobbying today in Canberra - Mediaweek
'The industry will be gutted': why Australian film and TV is fighting for its life - The Guardian
Netflix again rejects the case for a local content quota - IF Magazine
What's the point of making Australian films if nobody gets to see them? - The Guardian
Cate Blanchett joins stars signing open letter that calls on Australia to protect screen industry - The Guardian
Netflix needs Government to impose Australian-content quota to recover industry 'under siege' - ABC
Streaming risk to local film television content - The Australian
Music and screen industries unite to call for Aussie content on streaming services - The Music Network
Screen and Music Industries Call for Changes to Australian Content Rules - FilmInk
Local film and TV content makes up just 1.6% of Netflix’s Australian catalogue - IF Magazine
Netflix And Stan Need Local Content Quotas: Senator Sarah Hanson-Young - Mumbrella
Greens announce plan to boost Australia’s creative industries - FilmInk
Regulators and government agencies must “speak truth to power”: SPA - IF Magazine