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

Screen producers, actors hope Australian content quota will see more diverse Australian stories on screen - SBS

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



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

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